"The List" for Obama's Fifty Eighth Week in Office

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 Obama's Fifty Eighth Week in Office

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"The List" for 3/4/2010

Obama's friend Rev. Wright: ... “I have been affiliated with the Cuban Council of Churches since the 1980s,” boasted Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a sermon on July 16, 2006.  “Non-partisan,” Reverend Wright? Not according to Cuban intelligence defector Juan Vives, who from hands-on experience reports that the Cuba Council of Churches is in fact an arm of Cuba’s ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos) itself an arm of Cuba’s DGI, Cuba’s secret police, founded and mentored by the KGB and East German STASI. The ICAP’s long-time chieftain was Rene Cruz Rodriguez, perhaps one of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s “friends.

An active Homeland Security program codenamed “Einstein” will receive an upgrade from the help of the NSA. This “help” includes the implementation of technology to read through all of your email contents.

A U.S. congressional committee approved a resolution condemning the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, rejecting a last-minute Obama administration effort to derail it and putting a chill on relations with Turkey.

The Obama administration will announce its plans for coastal oil and gas drilling leases by the end of March, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday.  Salazar told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that he was preparing two plans to govern leases on the outer continental shelf — one with court-mandated changes that would apply through June 30, 2012, and another completely new blueprint for leasing from July 1, 2012, until 2017.The decision to go with sequential schedules means Salazar is scrapping a Bush-era proposal for 2010 through 2015 that would have allowed leases on Pacific and Atlantic waters where drilling has been off limits for decade

Groundbreaking study published by Dr. Gabriel Calzada, of Madrid’s King Juan Carlos University

Chicago Tribune article about the Energy Dept. FOIA requests documenting collusion

Last March, Spanish economics professor Gabriel Calzada published an academic analysis that showed for every green job created in Spain, 2.2 jobs were lost as an opportunity cost. This finding contradicted the Obama Administration’s claim that massive subsidies for wind and solar energy would create jobs.-... The Administration’s response? Huddle with big wind lobbyists and other special-interest groups to collaborate on a taxpayer-funded “rebuttal” to Calzada’s work  -Despite calls for increased transparency and openness, recent U.S. Energy Department documents obtained through FOIA requests and reported by The Chicago Tribune show significant collusion among Energy Department officials and the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), as well as other third party special-interest groups, including the left-of-center Center for American Progress....Assistant secretary of energy Cathy Zoi, who has held top positions at Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, is charged with crafting renewable energy policy for the Obama Administration. According to FOIA-obtained emails, Zoi and her team worked hand-in-hand with big wind’s lobby – AWEA – and other special-interest groups to rebut and discredit a groundbreaking study published by Dr. Gabriel Calzada, of Madrid’s King Juan Carlos University, that examined Span’s experience with renewable energy mandates and so-called “green jobs.”

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius chastised top insurance executives Thursday over proposed double-digit rate hikes

The Obama administration is urging a House panel not to offend Turkey by declaring that the Ottoman-era killing of Armenians was genocide.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday the White House hopes to see the House approve the healthcare bill by March 18, the first day of the NCAA college basketball tournament and just before President Barack Obama leaves the country on an international trip.

Two senior administration officials said the White House is telling Democrats reconsidering their support for health care reform that they will pay the price for their original vote no matter what happens, so they should reap the political benefits of actually passing a law.

Picture: Obama wears a "purple" SEIU colored tie during health care speech

Senior Israeli diplomatic official: US Vice President Joe Biden is important, but no substitute for President Barack Obama, and a speech he is expected to give next week during his stay in Israel should not be considered compensation for Obama’s speech to the Arab world in Cairo last June

VIDEO: It appears that Factcheck, Politifact and Hawaii officials made misleading statements to convince the public that Obama's Certification of Birth was Genuine, but the State Registrar has refused to confirm that Hawaii provided the Obama campaign with the COLB which was dated June 6, 2007.

"The List" for 3/3/2010

US will supply sophisticated laser-guided-bomb kits, 12 American-made surveillance drones and 18 late-model F-16 fighters to boost Pakistani forces capability to strike in remote tribal areas, a development which could spark unease in New Delhi.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday vowed to work with Congress on conservation, denying accusations by western Republicans of a “secret” Interior plan to designate vast tracts of land as national monuments through executive branch power.

Sarah Herlihey in 2006, an associate attorney specializing in litigation at the Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Kirkland- Former Member of finance committees of U.S. Senator Barack Obama.” is Floating the idea of "repealing" (which cannot be done) the natural born citizenship requirement

The Obama administration waded into negotiations over Wall Street regulations Wednesday, calling for limits on the size of financial institutions

As President Obama prepares to travel to Indonesia, his administration is seeking to reverse a 12-year-old ban on training an elite unit of the Indonesian military whose members have been convicted of beatings, kidnappings and other abuses.

Obama suspected of selling judge appointment for Obamacare votes: Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

A day after a conservative group released a video condemning the Justice Department for refusing to identify seven lawyers who previously represented or advocated for terror suspects, Fox News has uncovered the identities of the seven lawyers.

The White House is bracing for an ugly unemployment report on Friday that is expected to be worse because of the three winter storms that hit the East Coast last month. Goldman Sachs predicted the economy will lose as many as 100,000 jobs in February due to blizzard-like conditions that kept employers and prospective hires from getting to the office. Economic officials on Monday were already spinning expectations for the report, saying it would be important to look past February’s figures to the ''underlying trends,''

To meet the Obama administration goals for CO2 cuts, gas would have to be $7 per gallon

Argentina was celebrating a diplomatic coup yesterday in its attempt to force Britain to accept talks on the future of the Falkland Islands, after a two-hour meeting in Buenos Aires between Hillary Clinton and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

A man who was freed from Guantanamo after he claimed he only wanted to go home and help his family is now a senior commander running Taliban resistance to the U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan, two senior Afghan intelligence officials say

After two studies refuted President Barack Obama’s assertions regarding the success of Spain’s and Denmark’s wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to attack the studies.

VIDEO and AUDIO: Obama, repeatedly, saying it takes 60 votes to pass health care

VIDEO: Obama's speech on using reconcilliation to pass health care- surrounded by doctors in white coats

Sen. Tom Harkin told POLITICO that Senate Democratic leaders have decided to go the reconciliation route for Obamacare

A group of Democratic senators urged the Obama administration to suspend an economic stimulus program aimed at financing renewable energy, complaining that money is going to projects that are creating jobs in foreign countries. On Tuesday, Schumer and three other senators wrote to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to request a moratorium on the Recovery Act program. They asked that the moratorium remain in place until they can pass legislation mandating stimulus aid flow only to projects which preserve and create U.S. jobs.

Obama says the time has come to pass legislation overhauling the health care system, asserting that "every argument has been made."

The United Kingdon's Sky News "birther story" reported on 2/27/10

The United Kingdon's Sky News reported on 2/27/10: "Authorities in Hawaii have provided an electronic record of Obama's birth because the paper copy was destroyed in a fire which wiped out much of the state's archives."

- changing the story on the birth record

"The List" for 3/2/2010

3 more states, South Carolina, New Hampshire and Indiana have joined Arizona in proposing bills requiring proof of Article II Eligibility for the President of the United States

Obama's "Science Czar" John P. Holdren was once involved in a publication that included two accused Soviet informants among its founding sponsors.

US Arms control treaty treaty stalls over Russian demands. The Obama administration has rejected the Russian demands, fearing it could make it harder to win the Republican votes needed for Senate ratification of the new nuclear arms pact.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today released the guidelines and parameters of a Defense Department review of the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law in preparation for its potential repeal.

White House officials tell ABC News that in his remarks tomorrow President Obama will indicate a willingness to work with Republicans on some issue to get a health care reform bill passed but will suggest that if it is necessary, Democrats will use the controversial "reconciliation" rules requiring only 51 Senate votes to pass the "fix" to the Senate bill, as opposed to the 60 votes to stop a filibuster and proceed to a vote on a bill.

Officials in the heart of recession-battered central California misspent about $1 million in federal stimulus funds that were supposed to help adults and teenagers find jobs, state auditors said Tuesday. California's Inspector General Laura Chick said the Tulare County Workforce Investment Board used nearly $1 million in Recovery Act funds to pay for their own rent and utility bills, when the bulk of the money should have gone to finding youth summer jobs.

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal urged troops to keep a clear-eyed focus on the mission – and to be cognizant that it’s not about conventional warfare. “This is not that. This is a war for the people,

The White House on Tuesday made public excerpts of a previously classified report on cybersecurity prepared by the Bush adminisration.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) says there is no truth to reports that President Barack Obama will press Congress to pass a significantly smaller healthcare reform bill ''I don't have reason to believe that that's accurate,'

Downing Street dismisses US offer to mediate Faulkland Islands dispute, "We don't think that's necessary"

The high-profile F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will be delayed by two years and will be significantly over cost, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said on Tuesday.

 “We think it is probable that there will be a Nunn-McCurdy breach,” Donley said at a breakfast with defense reporters. The so-called Nunn-McCurdy law requires the military services or the Pentagon leadership to tell Congress when the price tag of a program increases significantly. The Pentagon then must certify to Congress that the program is still worth pursuing

The U.S. will deliver this month to Pakistan 1,000 sophisticated laser-guided bomb kits that would enable the government there to strike insurgent targets with more precision.

Obama will incorporate Republican ideas on medical malpractice reform and trying to rid the health care system of waste and abuse in a revised proposal he hopes jump-starts his stalled overhaul drive

Washington White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Tuesday stepped up the war of words that the Obama administration has been directing at Sen. Jim Bunning (R) of Kentucky, saying at a morning meeting with reporters, “I don’t know how you negotiate with the irrational.”

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently estimated the DHS contractor workforce at 200,000, which exceeds the department’s civilian workforce

Obama's doctors have recommended he moderate his "alcohol intake."

U.S. Pressing Israel not to attack Iran

Walpin-gate update: New charges of political motive in IG firing; presecutor who aided Obama ally sought job from Obama

The British are irate over Hillary Clinton's comments over Faulklands

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday he would have to “check on it” before he could deny Rep. Joe Sestak’s (D.-Pa.) claim that the administration had offered him a high-ranking job in the administration in exchange for not mounting a primary challenge against incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter

Obama to pitch $6 Billion "Cash for Calkers" program on trip to Georgia

Consumers would collect on-the-spot rebates of $1,000 or more for buying insulation, water heaters or other equipment to make their homes burn energy more efficiently under a rebate program President Barack Obama is promoting.

"The List" for 3/1/2010

The United States is concerned over the approval of a plan to build 600 new housing units in East Jerusalem, the State Department said on Monday, adding that both Israel and the Palestinians should refrain from unilateral actions which could undermine trust between the two parties.

Obama this week will defend a controversial legislative maneuver to pass healthcare reform, the White House hinted Monday.

VIDEO:  Obama's new "Fiscal Responsibility" commissioner Andy Stern..."Shared Prosperity"

VIDEO: Obama advisor Larry Summers, "The blizzards that affected much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics"

White House economic adviser Larry Summers said on Monday winter blizzards were likely to distort U.S. February jobless figures, which are due to be released on Friday.

According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the White House will release a new health-care bill on Wednesday that will be "much smaller" than either the House or Senate versions

Obama proposed $900 million in school grants today designed to improve low-performing schools, particularly those with high dropout rates

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton sent a message to Beirut that Washington cannot prevent an Israeli strike in Lebanon as long as arms smuggling to Hezbollah continues

Obama administration and its congressional allies are reversing the 1996 welfare reforms.  Obama's $862 billion stimulus package last February essentially abolished welfare reform by subsidizing the expansion of welfare rolls. The federal government now pays states 80 percent of the cost for each new family they add to their welfare rolls

Obama plans 'dramatic reductions' in US nuclear weapons stockpile.  ...as part of a sweeping policy review designed to prevent the spread of atomic weapons.

"The List" for 2/28/2010

The White House is considering a new policy that would give an advantage in bids for billions in government contracts to companies that pay workers "living wages" and offer generous benefits.Tthe "living wage" campaign has long been pushed by the radical Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, and was largely initiated on a local level in the 1990s with the help of a socialist party of which evidence suggests Obama was a member

To emphasize Obama's frustration with what Republicans were saying at the healthcare summit, CNN aired a montage of the faces the President was making as prominent members of the GOP spoke

VIDEO: White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle- "We will have the votes to pass health care"

The White House called for a "simple up-or-down" vote on health care legislation Sunday as Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed to House Democrats to get behind President Obama chief domestic priority even it if threatens their political careers. -White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle signaled Obama's intention to push the Democratic-crafted bill under the so called "Nuclear Option" or "Budget Reconcilliation"

The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder

Obama signs the extension of the Patriot Act for one year only- ....on Saturday night

 Obama's health plan proposal would extend Medicare taxes to the investment income of higher-earning households. The health care proposal that the White House released last Monday would extend the existing 2.9% Medicare tax to unearned income — including interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rent — for taxpayers with income exceeding $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for couples. Currently, the Medicare tax is assessed only on wages or earned income.

"The List" for 2/27/2010

U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton is due to meet with Argentina's president amid accusations of a snub to Britain over America's refusal to support the UK in the Falklands oil drilling row.

Latest White House visitor logs from 2009

It appears the Obama's "Safe Schools Czar. " Keven Jennings, took his high school stundents with him to the April 1993 "gay rights march on Washington, D.C.

Audio: Rudy Giuliani, "Real issue having Justice Dept. officials having represented Gitmo detainee's"

Kirtland Air Force Base will lose 18 ANG F-16Cs from the 188th Fighter Squadron & hundreds of jobs as part of the federal government's plan to cut its fighter fleet. By the end of this autumn the USAF will have reduced its fighter fleet by 250 jets. The first jets begin to leave as of April 1st and the government hopes the last will be retired by the end of September.

The White House has chosen Julianna Smoot, a prominent Democratic Party fundraiser, to replace Desiree Rogers as social secretary. Rogers is stepping down next month in the wake of last year's White House gate-crashing scandal that she was blamed for. Smoot served as national finance director for Obama's presidential campaign, helping raise $32.5 million during one quarter in 2007. She has also served as finance director for then-Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle and John Edwards' successful Senate bid in 1998.

The US Government policy of leaving the internet alone is over, according to Obama's top official at the Dept. of Commerice. Instead, an "Internet Policy 3.0" approach will see policy discussions between government agencies, foreign governments, and key Internet constituencies, according to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, with those discussions covering issues such as privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance.

"The List" for 2/26/2010

Fannie Mae, the largest provider of residential mortgage funds, on Friday reported a loss of $16.3 billion for the fourth quarter of last year and said it requested $15.3 billion from the Treasury to keep its net worth in positive territory. The government-controlled company said it would need additional taxpayer funds in the future to continue operations.

An Arab political source said Friday that special U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell has requested to resign due to his frustration with the way the Obama administration has been handling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a Nazareth-based daily. Hadith a-Nass reported that Mitchell's request stemmed partly from to his own failure to advance the resumption of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and also from his perception that certain elements within the State Department hold biased favor toward Israel.

The   economic forecast tied to President Obama's proposed NASA budget keeps growing bleaker.  Revised projections now show that about 23,000 workers at and around Kennedy Space Center will lose their jobs because of the shuttles' retirement and the new proposal to cancel the development of new rockets and spacecraft.

Obama puts SEIU president Andy Stern on the Debt Commission

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urges wealthy Pakistanis to pay a larger share of taxes to reduce their country's dependence on foreign aid

[Nachum]

The cast of the White House version of "Lost" continues to blow smoke. The all consuming "Smoke Monster".

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If it keeps going like this, it will be easier to make a list of accomplishments that benefited the nation.

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Because it’s still pertinent.

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