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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By ARON HELLER, Associated Press
January 16, 2012
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Monday
that the Palestinians have no interest in restarting peace negotiations,
suggesting that newly resumed contacts between the sides are producing
little progress.
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators began meeting in Jordan Jan. 3 in an
attempt to find a formula to restart formal negotiations. Israeli-
Palestinian talks have been stalled for more than three years over the issu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 2 After an almost ten-year struggle involving hundreds of thousands of
mobilized Hoosiers, it appears that Indiana will finally be able to enjoy
all the benefits of a Right to Work law.
On Wednesday, the Indiana House of Representatives passed the Right to Work
bill to free nearly 200,000 Hoosiers who have been forced to pay union dues
or fees for the privilege of getting up everyday and going to work so they
can provide for their families.
The Indiana Senate passed an identical bill earlier this ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 3 Modified: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 5:09pm PST
The Kaiser strike that promised to be the largest walkout in the company’s
history — wasn’t.
More than 21,000 nurses, mental health providers, optical workers and others
were called to strike Kaiser Permanente Tuesday, but far fewer appeared
to have shown up at the picket lines by the middle of the day.
The numbers remain in dispute, however.
Two-thirds of the Kaiser nurses in Northern California crossed the picket
line, Kaiser said.
“Nonsense,”... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 4 Forget the modest 3.1 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the
government's widely used measure of inflation. Everyday prices are up some 8
percent over the past year, according to the American Institute for
Economic Research.
The not-for-profit research group measures inflation without looking at the
big, one-time purchases that can skew the numbers. That means they don't
look at the price of houses, furniture, appliances, cars, or computers.
Instead, AIER focuses on Americans' typical dai... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 by Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest
Keith Koffler at Politico is being quite perceptive:
Barack_obamaPresident Barack Obama seems to be governing in some
parallel universe — where the United States exists without mortal dangers
threatening its economy and the nation’s most pressing exigency is the
reelection of its president.
But when Obama swore to defend the Constitution, and therefore the
nation, he did it in the dimension where the rest of us exist, where the
economy appears to be headed... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 By SCOTT BAUER
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Meet the new boss, says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker,
pledging to make peace with Democrats after his historic recall victory.
But it will take more than a promised meeting with lawmakers over beer and
brats to ease tensions. Walker's wounded adversaries will want proof that
the triumphant governor isn't the same as the old boss.
"A lot of what the governor had to say he said last year in his inauguration
address," a skeptical Democratic state Sen. Jon Erpen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 7 June 9, 2012 by TWB
To say that liberals, and more specifically democrats, are in a state of
disorder over the upcoming Presidential election would be a major
understatement. Liberal pundits and politicians are throwing every possible
excuse up against the proverbial wall hoping that something will stick;
hoping that something, anything, will turn the tide for their guy, who by
all previous estimations, should be running away with this election without
the slightest worry that he’ll not gain t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time, the influx of Asians moving to the U.S
. has surpassed that of Hispanics, reflecting a slowdown in illegal
immigration while American employers increase their demand for high-skilled
workers.
An expansive study by the Pew Research Center details what it describes as "
the rise of Asian-Americans," a highly diverse and fast-growing group making
up roughly 5 percent of the U.S. population. Mostly foreign-born and
naturalized citizens, their numbers have been b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 by Alli Bachmann
Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) has done his job; and he’s done it well. He’s
maintained the New York City that Mayor Rudy Guiliani (R) created during the
1990’s. After a special election and winning a third term as mayor,
Bloomberg has officially outlived his usefulness as Mayor. Some Bloomberg
initiatives that have recently sparked controversy are his proposed ban on
large, sugary beverages and his breastfeeding-only hospital restriction. As
a man who once claimed to be a republi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 596 | 10 对不起，这一点上，您就有点硬凹了：这是当时的新闻报道-
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/08/news/economy/obama_stimulus_pla
开篇第一句话就是：
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama unveiled a stimulus plan Thursday
night that he says will boost hiring and provide a jolt to the stalled
economy if it becomes law.
key words: BOOST HIRING
其次，在我的原文里就是说的“下限”，您从哪里看出我的意思是“上限”？
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 加税到底好还是坏现在可以拿法国做例子了.
PARIS—-The French Socialist government on Friday unveiled the country's
toughest budget in decades, hiking taxes for the rich and big business in a
bid to slash its deficit while facing a stalled economy.
President François Hollande, in his first budget since being elected
five months ago, has pledged to balance public accounts by the end of his
mandate in 2017 and given himself two years to turn around the French
economy.
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According to documents presented at the weekl... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 12 http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/nov-5-late-
November 6, 2012, 1:43 am
Nov. 5: Late Poll Gains for Obama Leave Romney With Longer Odds
By NATE SILVER
Mitt Romney has always had difficulty drawing a winning Electoral College
hand. Even during his best period of polling, in the week or two after the
first presidential debate in Denver, he never quite pulled ahead in the
polling averages in Ohio and other states that would allow him to secure 270
electoral votes.
But the most rec... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Foodstamps Surge By Most In One Year To New All Time Record, In Delayed
Release
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/10/2012 10:46 -0500
While there had been speculation that the BLS may delay the release of its
October nonfarm payroll number until after the election, it turned out there
was no reason to worry. Perhaps this is because the number, while at stall
speed, was not quite as horrible as some had expected (even if the change in
average hourly earnings did tumble to new all time lows) and so ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 14 By JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF
Earlier this year, researchers reported impressive results for a treatment
that offered a potential cure for intractable cases of hepatitis C. But now,
millions of patients waiting for such a breakthrough may never get it.
The story of how the promising therapy got stalled despite positive research
illustrates a little-acknowledged truism in the pharmaceutical industry:
Sometimes drugs die not because they don't work or are unsafe, but because
they don't make business sens... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 94：0，参议院一致投票反对奥巴马的否决，要求加强对伊朗流氓政权的经济制裁
Senate Votes 94-0 to Override Obama on Iran Sanctions
The Senate approved new economic sanctions on Iran on Friday, overriding
objections from the White House that the legislation could undercut existing
efforts to rein in Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The Senate voted 94-0 to impose additional U.S. financial penalties on
foreign businesses and banks involved in Iran’s energy, ports, shipping and
shipbuilding sectors, and impose sanctions on metals trade with Ir... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 I See England, I See France
by Matt Purple
The left and much of the center are launching a scorched-earth assault
against the right's position on taxes.
Republicans are being told they must hike taxes on top earners if they're
serious about paying down the debt. Grover Norquist is being portrayed as a
mad sorcerer, staggering around and misfiring spells in fits of pique while
his entranced minions slowly come to. Here in Washington, meaningless
buzzwords are fluttering through the air like dead ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 by Jammie
If he was so interested in avoiding the fiscal cliff, why did he fly on our
dime to Hawaii last Friday only to turn around and jet back to Washington
now for some photo ops?
President Barack Obama is cutting short his Hawaiian holiday to leave
for Washington on Wednesday to address the unfinished “fiscal cliff”
negotiations with Congress, the White House said on Tuesday.
As the clock ticks toward a January 1 deadline, efforts to avert a sharp
rise in taxes and deep spending cut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By SARAH PORTLOCK And ERIC MORATH
The number of new unemployment claims increased last week, but the amount of
workers drawing benefits on a continuing basis dropped to its lowest level
since before the financial crisis took hold.
Initial jobless claims rose by 4,000 to a seasonally adjusted 371,000 in the
week ended Jan. 5, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The data showed the number of continuing unemployment benefit claims—those
drawn by workers for more than a week—dropped by 127,000 to 3,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 February 3, 2013 by Warner Todd Huston
Once again liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has
said that our government trillions in debt is not a problem and even
intimated that we might we crank up the printing presses and print more fiat
money to get us out of our bad economy.
Krugman appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” program on January 30
and scoffed at Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R, WS) claim that our country is on the
verge of a debt crisis.
The C-SPAN host played a clip... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 Government by Freakout: Obama’s scare tactics aren’t much of a long-term
strategy
by Jammie
The president’s sequester strategy is like Howard Beale in “Network”:
“Woe is us. . . . And woe is us! We’re in a lot of trouble!”
It is always cliffs, ceilings and looming catastrophes with Barack Obama
. It is always government by freakout.
That’s what’s happening now with the daily sequester warnings. Seven
hundred thousand children will be dropped from Head Start. Six hundred
thousand wome... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 WSJ的帖子，讲得和顶楼的一模一样，你会不会也笑了？
Venezuela’s Election Downshifts Views on Economy, Debt
By Charles Roth
We hear elections have consequences, which are usually obvious if the winner
’s mandate is strong. Venezuela’s snap election over the weekend has major
implications for the economy and the oil-rich nation’s debt, thinking on
which is changing fast.
The anointed heir of Venezuela’s defunct leader, Hugo Chavez, eked out a
wafer-thin majority of votes in Sunday’s snap presidential election, a
surprise ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 By Chris Stirewalt
"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72
degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are
going to say ‘OK.’ That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.”
-- Then-Sen. Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Oregon, May 17, 2008.
World leaders don’t seem to be paying much heed to President Obama. And not
just when it comes to domestic spy leaker Edward Snowden’s ultimate
destination.
Obama today will announce what pro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 by Jordan Gonzalez
The Senate once again failed to pass legislation that would address the
doubled interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans on Wednesday, with Sen.
Harry Reid’s cloture vote to proceed failing 51-49.
The bill, the Keep Student Loans Affordable Act of 2013 (S. 1238), was the
Democrats’ latest attempt to return the subsidized Stafford loan interest
rates to 3.4 percent from the current 6.8 percent. It would have kept the
rates at 3.4 percent for another year.
Before the vote, Se... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 25 California Democrat ‘Rising Star’ Arrested on Burglary Charges »
by Jammie
Curiously, nobody is calling him a white Hispanic.
Sonoma County Supervisor Efren Carrillo’s arrest Saturday on suspicion
of burglary and prowling is likely to curtail any short-term plans of his to
seek higher office and could cut short or limit his career in local
government, political observers said Sunday.
While the extent of immediate damage to his political prospects isn’t
yet clear, the dramatically di... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 26 我坚信，垂汪当总统都比它爸强。
虽然，垂汪可能把economy打得满脸是血。
Obama Focuses on Economy, Vowing to Help Middle Class
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Obama Speaks in Illinois: The president spoke about the country’s economic
progress and his vision for the rest of his presidency.
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and PETER BAKER
Published: July 24, 2013 612 Comments
WARRENSBURG, Mo. — President Obama tried to move past months of debate over
guns, surveillance and scandal on Wednesday and reorient his administration
behind a progra... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 Immigration Audits Hurt Hispanic-Oriented Grocery Chains
By Katy Stech
Struggling from the fallout of federal immigration audits, two Southwest
grocery-store chains have filed for bankruptcy protection with plans to
reorganize.
California’s Mi Pueblo grocery store operator filed for Chapter 11
protection on Monday after the 21-store chain was told to replace some of
its 3,260 workers whose documentation came under review during a U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement audit, according to court... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 Christie vetoes 3 gun-control bills
By Matt Katz, Inquirer Trenton Bureau
Posted: August 18, 2013
Gov. Christie rejected three major pieces of gun-control legislation Friday
that Democrats passed following last year's fatal school shootings in
Connecticut.
Despite proposing a ban on purchases of the Barrett .50-caliber gun and
similar weapons in April, Christie vetoed a bill that would have done just
that.
He said Friday that the bill went too far, in that it would have
criminalized current and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Along with being the worst built website in history, Healthcare.gov also
appears to be the most expensive, and we get stuck with the bill. How lovely.
Via Digital Journal:
It’s been one full week since the flagship technology portion of the
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) went live. And since that time, the
befuddled beast that is Healthcare.gov has shutdown, crapped out, stalled,
and mis-loaded so consistently that its track record for failure is
challenged only by Congress.
The site it... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 In response to Interest in Obamacare Drops 88 Percent in Two Weeks:
In a radio interview on Monday, Paul Ryan detailed the provisions of the
House Republicans' offer that the White House rejected over the weekend.
They asked for two basic things - no special treatment for members of
Congress and Obama administration and suspend the ObamaCare tax for
individuals that has already been suspended for employers.
Ryan said, "individuals can’t even sign up for Obamacare right now, so why
would you tax ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 Politics Trumped Policy, Truth for Obama's Reelect
Story documents how the White House slow-walked regulations despite denials.
The Obama White House put politics before governing in 2012, lied about it,
and still won't own up to it. That's the bottom line of a Washington Post
story that shows how far President Obama has devolved since promising five
years ago to change Washington.
Juliet Eilperin opens her story with a bang.
The White House systematically delayed enacting a series of rules on t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 27968 | 33 most of photosynthesis organism,plants algea, bateria show higher efficiency
with high temp and higher CO2. CO2 in air is not high enough to stall it
yet.
some plant might loss advantages. but overall vegetation will increase.
because of the cold, tanga never live to its potential.
for
advantage
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 By Dahleen Glanton and Jason Meisner Tribune reporters
7:03 a.m. CST, January 7, 2014
A federal judge on Monday stripped away a key element of Chicago's gun
ordinance, ruling that it is unconstitutional to prohibit licensed gun
stores from operating in the city.
U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang found that the city failed to convince him
that banning the sale of guns by licensed dealers was necessary to reduce
gun violence.
The ruling also would make it legal for individuals to transfer ownership... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2539 | 35 if there is no drastic change we can say "climate stall"
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 8.2.2 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 36 Sleazy New York Democrat Resigns Amid Multiple Sexual Harassment Accusations
by Jammie
Naturally you have to dig deep into the story before his party is identified.
Dennis Gabryszak resigned from the Assembly on Sunday, a month after
allegations surfaced that portrayed him as a serial sexual harasser of
female members on his staff.
Gabryszak, 62, quit just 24 hours before members of the Assembly were
set to begin their first full day of the 2014 legislative session this
afternoon. That g... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 Controversial DOJ nominee fails to clear Senate test vote
Senate Democrats failed to muster enough support to push a controversial
Justice Department nominee past a key test vote on Wednesday, leaving the
nomination stalled amid bipartisan concerns about his past work on behalf of
convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The nomination of Debo Adegbile for head of the Civil Rights Division was
blocked, on a 47-52 vote.
Adegbile needed just 51 senators to support him in order to advance to a
final v... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3249 | 38 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/11/immigration-change-g
Immigration reform may be stalled in Congress, but a new Obama
administration policy is extending legal status and military benefits to
thousands of illegal immigrants who are the spouses, parents and children of
American military members.
Supporters say the policy -- which applies to active-duty military,
reservists and veterans -- is long overdue.
"Those veterans and those men and women who serve in the National Guard
certainly de... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 U.S. Economic Growth Slows To a Crawl in First Quarter
Frigid Weather, Weak Exports Curtail Activity
WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy nearly stalled in the first quarter as weakness
overseas hurt exports and frigid weather curtailed business investment.
Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced
across the economy, grew at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 0.1% in the
first quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That matched the
second-weakest quarterly r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 GM recalls 3.4M more cars for ignition problems
June 16, 2014 - 5:04 PM
By TOM KRISHER, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors says it needs to change or replace the keys
for about 3.4 million cars because they could cause the ignition switch to
move out of position if they're carrying too much weight.
GM said in a statement Monday that the switches can rotate out of "run" if
the key has excess weight and the car "experiences some jarring event," such
as hitting a pothole or crossing a r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 41 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: America’s Crazy, Upside-Down Immigration System
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jul 21 14:17:03 2014, 美东)
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/americas-crazy-u
By VIVEK WADHWA
July 20, 2014
Does America's immigration system make sense to anyone?
The recent influx of thousands of migrant children from Central America has
highlighted the failure of reform efforts and gripped the nation’s
attention. This is a hum... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 September 24, 2014 - 1:09 PM
Associated Press
SURUC, Turkey (AP) — A Kurdish organization has accused the Turkish
government of backing Islamic State militants fighting with Kurds in Syria,
and suggested that could jeopardize a truce that Kurdish rebels in Turkey
began in March 2013.
The statement was issued Wednesday by the Kurdish Communities Union, whose
honorary leader is Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan
Workers' Party, the Kurdish rebel group that has long fought Turk... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 US West Coast seaports mostly shut down amid labor dispute
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Companies that operate marine terminals in major West
Coast cities said they weren't calling workers to unload ships Thursday that
carry car parts, furniture, clothing, electronics — just about anything
made in Asia and destined for U.S. consumers. Containers of U.S. exports won
't get loaded either.
The partial lockout is the result of an increasingly damaging labor dispute
between dockworkers and their employers.
The... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 44 去年12月中旬，宾州的一位联邦法官Judge Arthur Schwab在一个案子的判决书中，做
出奥巴马政府的非法移民政策违反宪法。 |
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发帖数: 2964 | 45 I am not necessarily against Judge Schwab's opinion, but I view his opinion
in the case that he ruled as "legislate from the bench" Exhibit A.
Judge Hanen's opinion, on the other hand, appears to be limited, reasonable
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发帖数: 6080 | 47 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/26/us-usa-congress-obama
这如果不算为一党权力出卖国家，什么算？
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday told Latinos that
Republicans were to blame for holding up changes to U.S. immigration laws,
urging them to hold Republicans accountable for the problems in the 2016
presidential election.
Speaking on the home turf of Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor who is
considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination, Obama told
young members of Miami’s Latino ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 48 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, in an exclusive interview with Fox
News, appealed to the U.S. to play a greater role in helping his country
fight terrorism -- as he urged the creation of an "Arab ready force" to
confront the Islamic State and similar groups.
The Egyptian leader spoke with Fox News' Bret Baier in an extensive
interview conducted in Cairo. He addressed the need for what he called a
religious "revolution," urging moderate Muslims around the world to "stand
up" against terr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 49 US releases military aid to Egypt, cites national security
March 31, 2015 - 5:07 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday released military aid
to Egypt that was suspended after the 2013 overthrow of the government, in
an effort to boost Cairo's ability to combat the extremist threat in the
region.
The White House said Obama notified Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi
in a phone call Tuesday that the U.S. would be sending 12 F-16 fighter jets
, 20 missiles and up to 125 tank ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 50 US economy barely grew in first quarter
April 29, 2015 - 10:05 AM
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy skidded to a near halt in the first
three months of the year, battered by a triple whammy of harsh weather,
plunging exports and sharp cutbacks in oil and gas drilling.
The overall economy grew at a barely discernible annual rate of 0.2 percent
in the January-March quarter, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
That is the poorest showing in a year a... 阅读全帖 |
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