"The List" for the 27th week of the Obama presidency

Nachumlist.com ^ | 7/31/2009 | Nachum

[Nachum]

 Obama's Twenty Seventh Week in Office

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"The list" for 7/31/2009

Obama’s Science Adviser Called for ‘Zero Economic Growth’

House Health Care Bill Criticized as Panel Votes for Public Plan

Saudi Arabia on Friday bluntly rejected U.S. appeals for improved relations with Israel as a way to help restart Middle East peace talks, saying the Jewish state is not interested in a deal.

The Department of Defense release 146 additional photos Friday of Air Force One's controversial Manhattan flyover in April.

The House votes to restrict Wall Street pay.  First piece of a broader proposal by Obama to increase oversight of financial institutions.

Analysis: Public Co-operatives for health care, a "tojan horse" leading to the public option and single payor health care?

Obama's green jobs czar not sure what 'green jobs" are

The nation's economy is starting to rebound, but the Obama administration's massive stimulus package had little to do with it. While government spending at all levels increased in the second quarter, only a small amount of the $787 billion stimulus package had trickled out by June 30.

The Kenyan aunt of President Obama has quietly resurfaced in public housing in South Boston

Obama on the cover of Time for the seventh time

The first month after the new Obama strategy in Afghanistan is the deadliest for American Soldiers

Economy shrinks at 1%, Bush was slammed for same GDP numbers

Michelle Obama's garden is polluted with toxic sludge

Despite objections and veto threats from the White House, a $636 billion Pentagon spending bill passed by a 400-30 vote Thursday contains money for a much-criticized new presidential helicopter fleet, cargo jets that Gates says aren't needed, and an alternative engine for the next-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that the Pentagon says is a waste of money.

"The list" for 7/30/2009

Obama announced that he is presenting the Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson. Mary Robinson is the host and mastermind  of the first Durban conference.

The U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem's website homepage ... has nothing related to Jews or Israelis

Homosexual activist and Abortion proponants figure prominately in Obama's choices for Medal of Honor winners.

Three folks having a beer becomes four.  Joe Biden crashes the party

Two Georgia officers are under investigation for running criminal background checks on Obama

Obama connection? The Gov contract for Swine Flu vaccine talks about using TMTI technology for this flu. TMTI technology is used for researching biological weapons.

Obama crony controlled AVI PHARMA won government contract for swine flu vaccine.  There are claims that the bid was closed.  Gov. document req. open bidding- at link.

In a joint appearance with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines, Obama stepped in it again: "The Philippines is a small country, but, to use a boxing metaphor, it "punches above its weight in the international arena."

The Obama administration has failed to name an envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism around the world as mandated by US law since the previous ambassador was relieved of his duties at the start of the president's term more than six months ago.  

Quietly, the last of the U.S. government's wheat reserves, held in the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust, were sold in late May onto the domestic market for cash. The cash was put in a trust for food aid. With no other government wheat holdings, U.S. government wheat stocks are now totally exhausted

Democrats are pushing for Medicare cuts on a scale not seen in years to underwrite health care for all. Many seniors now covered under the program don't like that one bit.   Republicans have accused President Barack Obama of trying to use Medicare as a piggy bank to finance his top domestic priority

One hundred ninety-seven years, one month and 14 days after its founding, Citigroup Inc has given a roughly 34 percent stake to U.S. taxpayers

4 CEO's meet with the president for lunch at the White House and then are handed a bill for the food.

Obama said he expects Friday's report on the nation's gross domestic product to show the economy contracted during the second quarter of the year but that the U.S.has"stepped away from the precipice."

Costly Marine One helicopter facing veto: Neither President Barack Obama nor Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to buy the VH-71 presidential helicopters to replace its existing, decades-old fleet.

Obama administration wins on procurement reform, House strikes F-22 funding from defense appropriations bill

VIDEO: U.S. Brewers upset over beer summit selection: all foreign owned

Obama appears to be breaking every record kept on U.S. presidential press coverage. Over the first six months of this year, he was cited in a staggering 1.1 million stories across mainstream, Internet and social media--an average of 6,100 references a day

The New York Times buries bad Obama poll on page 17

 The House health-care reform bill proposes to decrease hospital visits by establishing a “medical home pilot program” for elderly and disabled Americans.

"Don't ask/Don't tell amendment" withdrawn from defense appropriations bill

"The list" for 7/29/2009

Is the 2005 Obama ethics violation connection to big Donor George W. Haywood connected to swine flu scare? One of Obama's biggest donors, Haywood owns almost 8 million shares of bio firm AVI Bio PHarma Inc. and is a key investor .  Bio Pharma will be one of the big producers of Swine Flu vaccine.   The US government came out and declared that half the population needs the vaccine...

The U.S. Treasury sold $39 billion in five-year debt Wednesday in an auction that drew poor demand, raising worries over the cost of financing the government's burgeoning budget deficit.

Illinois received  a ZERO rating in a report released on Wednesday that concludes the state is worst in the nation when it comes to information available online about how federal stimulus money is being spent.  The worst in the country.

This is a president who needs a vacation,” says Democratic pollster Peter D. Hart,

Obama now says health care bill won't be voted on until September or October

About 1,000 Jews read the book of lamentations outside US consulate in Jerusalem on the 9th of Av fast day to protest against the Obama administration's demand to freeze Jewish construction

in eastern sections of the city.

Leadership of AARP all Obama donors: possibly fueling AARP's demise

Def. Sec. Gates orders the military to come up with $60 billion in savings over the next five years to pay for new priorities

2003 VIDEO of Obama speaking to the AFL-CIO: "I am a proponant of a single payor health care system"

Obama's Science Advisor, John P. Holdren, advocated the "de-developement of United States" in books he published in the 1970's

Video: Obama says we’re not proposing cuts to Medicare.  No mention of his proposal to take 300 billion from Medicare

Key Obama advisor David Axelrod's son hired by the Huffington Post

Obama bought bio-tech stock back in '05- “Within two weeks of his purchase of the biotech stock that Feb. 22, Mr. Obama initiated what he has called “one of my top priorities since arriving in the Senate,” a push to increase federal financing to fight avian flu.”

The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials.  The proposal is awaiting final approval from Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

List of twelve journalists who have spun through the revolving door between journalism and the Obama campaign and/or Obama administration

Obama at AARP: No 'socialized medicine'

Blue Dog Democrat deal:  there will be no floor vote on the legislation before August.

A group of fiscally conservative House Democrats announced Wednesday they reached a deal with the chamber's Democratic leaders on the Obama health care reform bill.

VIDEO: 911 Caller in the Harvard Professor Henry Gates arrest case making a public statement to the press today where she said she has been unfairly called a "racist."

Obama's personal doctor says Obama health care plan has no cost control, and will be really expensive- "bound for failure"

VIDEO: Rassmussen Polls: Gap between Obama and Voters on fairness widens

As poll numbers fall, Obama bashes Bush 9 times in a press conference

Obama trys to sell the health care program by visiting a kroger grocery store in rural Virginia

"The list" for 7/28/2009

Iraqi Forces Reportedly Open Fire, Beat Iranian Exiles- just in time to coincide with a visit from Def. Sec. Gates

Michelle Obama gets involved in a new Obama initiative to fight childhood obesity

After trying to take 500 billion out of medicare Obama is telling participants in an online forum on health care that the current system and its skyrocketing costs are a threat to Medicare

More than 4,600 new police officers are to be hired across the US at a cost of one billion dollars as part of the country's economic stimulus plan

Health plan may back co-op over a public option- After weeks of secretive talks, a bipartisan group in the Senate edged closer yesterday to a health-care compromise that omits two key Democratic priorities

Obama: Government will decide which doctors deserve "Rewards"

CDC chief Dr. Thomas Freiden said increasing the price of unhealthy foods "would be effective" at combating the nation's obesity problem

- The U.S. government said it has revoked the diplomatic visas of four Honduran officials, stepping up pressure on coup-installed leaders who insist they can resist international demands to restore the ousted president.

Federal stimulus money to pay for more bay area police officers

Texas Medical Center leaders Monday sent a message to Congress as it tries to reform America's troubled health care system: slow down

The White House has redesigned its website at a cost of $18 million, it has now declined to that of George W. Bush during the waning days of his presidency.  In February 2009, the Obama website was ranked almost the 500th most popular website however in July 2009, it has dropped to 3,732 in the world. 

VIDEO: Cambridge cops angry at Obama, female cop says she will never vote for him again

The US has turned off a news ticker at its mission in Havana that had long irritated the Cuban government, diplomats said.  The 5-foot-tall ticker, which streamed news reports and messages blaming Cuba's problems on its socialist economy, infuriated former President Fidel Castro when it was turned on in January 2006

CBO now says that the Obama health plan won't kill private insurers

Obama’s top science adviser said in a book he co-authored in 1973 that a newborn child “will ultimately develop into a human being” if he or she is properly fed and socialized.

Obama responds to question about the health bill requiring seniors to have counseling on hospice and euthanasia that he and the first lady have "living wills"

VIDEO: Democrats Using House Franking Commission to Censor GOP Emails on Government Health Care Bill

The House of Representatives voted to eliminate $99 million in grant funds to bolster abstinence education in the U.S.  The House's decision to cut the funds and to approve a new grant towards contraceptive-promoting sex education had been sought by Obama in his budget recommendations 

"The list" for 7/27/2009

"Mitchell tells Abbas that contrary to what has been said in the mass media there is no agreement with the Israeli side on anything,"

VIDEO: Michelle Malkin talks about an Obama culture of corruption in her new book

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Saturday he ordered his deputies to tape conversations with federal officials after a dispute over who called for the release of illegal immigrants arrested in a crime sweep. Arpaio said a total of 13 illegal immigrants have been released — three on Thursday and 10 on Friday — after federal officials said their arrests didn’t fit new Department of Homeland Security policies and ordered the deputies to release them

Daren Briscoe, a Newsweek correspondent who was embedded with Obama's presidential campaign, has taken a job with the Obama administration, according to an email sent to a listserv of his classmates at the Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

The lone member of Congress on an oversight panel reviewing the use of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program criticized the decision of the United Auto Workers union not to testify at today's hearing in Detroit on the auto industry bailout. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, who is member of the Congressional Oversight Panel, said the UAW refused to testify at today's hearing at Wayne State University.

Israel hardened its insistence that it would do anything it felt necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, -U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates reassured Israel that the new Obama administration was not naive about Iran's intentions, and that Washington would press for new, tougher sanctions against the Iranians if they balk.

Audio from 2004: Obama didnt like it when Bush Rushed Through Legislation

Nebraskan politicians are also working on state sovereignty legislation

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday China can play a major role in restoring global growth by continuing to encourage more consumption at home and exporting less.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be "disastrous" for Texas.

'US lifts ban on Syrian air industry'

The US SenateJudiciary Committee's top Republican said Monday he will vote against Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation as the first Hispanic justice of the US Supreme Court

Afghan President Karzai wants new rules for our troops governing conduct

Obama to End US Embargo Against Syria

VIDEO: Israelis Turn Out to Protest President Obama in Jerusalem

Anti-Obama Rally in Jerusalem

VIDEO: VP Joe Biden's Blunt Comments on Russia Being Clarified by Administration

AUDIO: Congressman Introduces Resolution Calling On Obama To Apologize To Cop

"The list" for 7/26/2009

Lawmakers and consumer groups say Obama insurance could still be out of reach for many families with modest incomes who receive small subsidies or none at all.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood had to be asked the same question seven times in Friday's House Budget Committee hearing before he would finally give a straight answer.  Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., was grilling LaHood about a letter he had sent Arizona's governor, after an Arizona Republican senator questioned the effectiveness of the stimulus package. The letter was widely viewed as a political threat in retaliation for criticism of the stimulus.

Obama: I used to pray every night - now I pray ALL the time (and get devotionals on my BlackBerry)

Hillary Clinton: Iran's pursuit of nukes 'futile. -  "We're not going to let that happen"

VIDEO: Obama's good friend, professor Gates- in a 1996 rant against "racist white institutions'

VIDEO: Health Care Advocate Says Senior Citizens to be Biggest Losers in ObamaCare

The CBO says that there would be little savings from Obama's Medicare Panel

Joe Biden's diatribe on Russia leaves Kremlin leaders perplexed.  "It is perplexing why [Biden] decided to share his interpretation [of] the bilateral relations,"

An Obama official admits that stimulus projects are not chosen for job creation- Sally Rockey, an acting deputy director at the National Institutes of Health, has admitted that the agency does not choose projects based on the jobs they would create

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told European foreign ministers last week that Israel will agree to temporarily freeze construction in settlements in the framework of new understandings that Jerusalem will reach with Washington

The Obama administration is dispatching four of its most senior foreign policy and security figures to Israel this coming week with the same message on two open questions causing friction between the close allies: Stops all settlement construction in the West Bank and shelve any plan for a military strike to sabotage Iran's nuclear facilities

A senior U.S. source told Asharq Al-Awsat that if there is a war against Iran, Barack Obama’s presidency “will be over

The U.S. military command is considering contracting a private firm to manage security on the front lines of the war in Afghanistan, even as Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates says that the Pentagon intends to cut back on the use of private security contractors

[Nachum]

6 months in office. Seems like 6 years.

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