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Nouriel Roubini Held A Party For Clients At His Apartment Tonight, And This Is What He Told Them Joe Weisenthal Nov. 3, 2011, 9:01 PM Nouriel Roubini held a party/lecture at his apartment exclusively for clients (many of them hedge funders) of his firm Roubini.com. He spent about 30 minutes discussing the big issues of the day: The US economy, China, and of course, the biggie, the Eurozone crisis. Here's the gist of what he told them. When it comes to Europe, frankly, he said, "Our view is very bearish." Europe is a slow motion train wreck and there's a...

US President Obama has given the Europeans a harsh lecture on the dangers of their ongoing debt crisis. Offended by the unsolicited advice, Europeans have suggested the US get its own house in order first. Obama's remarks were "arrogant" and "absurd," German commentators say on Wednesday. Europeans are well aware of the seriousness of their ongoing debt crisis. But they don't, it seems, like to receive lectures from other countries -- especially the United States, which is struggling to deal with its own mountain of debt.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) fired back Wednesday at President Obama, who admonished the Republican presidential candidate to watch his words more carefully. Perry said "actions speak louder than words" after Obama's public admonishment yesterday on CNN for Perry's comments that an expanded money supply by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke would be "almost treasonous." "Yesterday the president said I needed to watch what I say," Perry told a crowd in New Hampshire at a politics-and-eggs breakfast, broadcast online. "I'd just like to respond, if I may: Mr. President, actions speak louder than words. My actions as governor

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In March 20,1969, Dr. Richard Day, the National Medical Director of the Rockefeller-sponsored "Planned Parenthood" to a meeting of the Pittsburgh Pediatric Society. delivered an invitation-only lecture about the “new world system” in which he defined the changes, according to an actual timetable, that would be accomplished by the year 2000 which included the following: * Travel restrictions will occur. It will be considered a privilege! People will need permission and a good reason to travel. An under-the-skin implantation device will be developed, coded specifically to identify each individual to accommodate government surveillance through radio signals. * More airplane and...

Former President Clinton in Greensboro for lectureThe Associated Press Tuesday, November 30, 2010 GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is visiting Greensboro for a lecture hosted by Guilford College. The event Tuesday evening at the Greensboro Coliseum is titled, "Embracing Our Common Humanity." It's part of an annual lecture series offered by the college. Clinton is the first U.S. president to take part in the Bryan Series. Other former heads of state who have participated in the talks include Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in 2004 and Mary Robinson of Ireland in 2006. Tickets to the event...

Via Michael Moynihan at Reason. Remember Lars Vilks? A few years ago he decided to draw Mohammed as a pooch and has been dodging killers ever since, from garden variety Islamist nuts like “Jihad Jane” all the way up to the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Funny thing, though: Not only wasn’t he intimidated, he practically dared the mujahedeen to come and get him, letting CNN cameras film his home and even booby-trapping the place in case the soldiers of Allah paid him an unexpected visit. Quote: Vilks has faced numerous death threats over the controversial cartoon, but said...

Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist who drew Mohammed as a dog, was recently told that a scheduled lecture on free speech, to be held at Jönköping Högskolan, would be canceled due to "security concerns." This, of course, is a common evasion, intended to protect the brittle sensibilities of Muslim students while supposedly standing four square behind the right of free speech. Alas, the administrators in Jönköping had a point. During a lecture in Uppsala today Vilks was attacked by a pack of feral fundamentalists, one of whom managed to headbutt the artist and break his glasses. Police intervened and waged...

STOCKHOLM – A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was assaulted Tuesday as furious protesters interrupted his university lecture about the limits of free speech. Lars Vilks told The Associated Press a man leaped from the front row and head-butted him as he was delivering his lecture at Uppsala University, breaking Vilks' glasses but leaving him uninjured. Police later said the attacker was stopped before he could reach Vilks and that the artist may have bumped into plain-clothes officers who briskly evacuated him from the room. Three people were detained, but it wasn't...

Nathaniel C Fick is the author of the 2005 New York Times bestseller One Bullet Away, recognized as one of the “Best Books of the Year” by The Washington Post. The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation honored the book with its General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award, given annually to outstanding nonfiction pertinent to Marine Corps history.

Project much Mr. President? Whether it’s the nation’s school children or the Congress or the American People President Barry Soetoro enjoys talking down to people. Soetoro scolded Congress and the American people like we were all school children on the first day of school. All I hear is that Democrats need to regain the debate on health care and that was what your speech was about wasn’t it, regaining the debate? If so, with all of the misinformation, scare tactics and ideological warfare that Democrats engage in how dare you get up on your soapbox and wash your hands like...

In his fourth prime-time news conference since taking office in January, Obama departed from his academic style briefly when he was asked about the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at Gates's home July 16. A white police officer, Sgt. James Crowley, responding to a neighbor's phone call that a burglary might be in progress, found Gates, who is black, inside the house after he forced open a jammed door. Gates showed the officer his identification, and an altercation ensued. He was charged with disorderly conduct, but the charges were dropped. Gates, a friend of the president's, portrayed...

Obama began his tour in Saudi Arabia and will deliver a speech in Cairo on Thursday to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims, after eight years of fraught ties under his predecessor George W. Bush. "Don't be biased towards Israel, don't interfere in countries' internal affairs and don't give lessons in democracy," said an editorial in Egypt's state-owned Rose El-Youssef newspaper. The chief editor of Egypt's state-owned Al-Ahram, Ossama Saraya, said Obama faced demands from his team to "put pressure on the Muslim world under the pretext of democratisation and respect for human rights. "There's nothing more absurd than putting more...

[Heritage Lecture #1090 -- Delivered April 24, 2008] ... It is likewise an honor to be here tonight and to speak to you of responsibility, because I'm keenly aware of the fact that in this room tonight we have an entire army of crusaders for freedom. ... I admire you and thank you for the hard work that you do. You and your colleagues do this because you love and are dedicated to the simple idea of human liberty. You see it as your birthright, and you fight on its behalf. You understand that man precedes the state, and that...

hi. everyone The Kyle/Buda VFW Post 12058 along with Central Texas Medical Center Hospice Care is sponsoring a book signing for my sister’s father-in-law, USAF MG Ret. Chris Adams Jr. He is a retired U.S. Air Force Major General. He has traveled the world extensively, in particular Russia and the former Soviet States. Among his books are, Inside the Cold War, Ideologies in Conflict, Red Eagle, Profile in Betrayal, Betrayal Mosaic and Out of Darkness. After a brief lecture, there will be a book signing of his latest book in Kyle (just south of Austin) on Saturday, June 16, 2007...

Former Vice President Al Gore appeared to be mostly a silhouette and Tennessee twang against a backdrop of red charts and depictions of melting glaciers and stranded polar bears last night, but that was all his faithful needed to stay glued to their bleacher seats as he laid out the case for global warming at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Wearing a dark suit, dark tie and dark blue shirt, he strode out 45 minutes late to a standing ovation and whistles, greeting the crowd with outstretched arms. Advertisement For 10 minutes, he served as his own warm-up guy,...

Gregory Elich, authour of Strange Liberators will be in Eugene Oregon to speak about the Kosovo crisis from an Orthodox perspective. He is one of the board of directors of the Jasenovac Research Institute, which also operates as a museum that commemmorates Serbs and Jews who died in a concentration camp at the hand of the Utaashis and the Nazis as well as Albanians aligned with Muslims and Young Turks.

Sean Hannity visited Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. Hannity's lecture included the time he tricked Paul Begala with the quotes John Kerry made supporting invading Iraq. He also spoke about facing the evil of our time in the same way we had to face Hitler. Hannity did many impersonations of Bill Clinton and talked about how the democrats had lost the South. He briefly talked about his disagreements with Repubicans on the issues of over-spending and illegal immigration. His ending statement was that in times of war, we need the right people in power. During Q/A session, most of the...

IN A BRILLIANT lecture at the University of Regensburg last week, Pope Benedict XVI made three crucial points that are now in danger of being lost in the polemics about his supposedly offensive comments about Islam. The pope's first point was that all the great questions of life, including social and political questions, are ultimately theological. How we think (or don't think) about God has much to do with how we judge what is good and what is wicked, and with how we think about the appropriate methods for advancing the truth in a world in which there are profound...

Sept. 19, 2006--Mathew Spalding, director of Heritage Foundation's B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, will lecture on “George Washington as the Model of American Statesmanship” at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 20, in 103 Gore Hall. Spalding is the author and editor of many works on America's founding, including Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition, and serves on the board of academic advisers at the Mount Vernon estate. This is event is sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and co-sponsored by the College Republicans at UD. There will be a book signing immediately after the lecture. For...