Friday News Roundup - Hour 2
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-05-20/friday-news-roundup-hour-2
In a wide-ranging speech on the Middle-East, President Obama declared support for democratic reform in the Arab world. He also began a new effort to break the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, calling for talks based on Palestine’s pre-1967 borders. The search is on for a new chief of the International Monetary Fund as Dominique Strauss-Kahn awaits trial in New York on attempted rape charges. Top U. S. military officials pressed for continued aid to Pakistan in the face of growing public resistance. And Queen Elizabeth expressed regret for the painful legacy between Britain and Ireland.
Guests
Keith Richburg
China correspondent, The Washington Post.
Susan Glasser
editor-in-chief, Foreign Policy.
Jeffrey Goldberg
national correspondent, The Atlantic Magazine, and author of "Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror."
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In his $3,000 per night hotel suite and total disregard for the humanity of the hotel maid, Dominique Strauss-Kahn presents an example of what the rich and powerful are doing to working people around the world. That is, asking us to practice austerity while the rich get richer off our labor.
I was listening to the BBC this morning and they were interviewing two students in Lebanon. What was interesting is that the students felt that the citizenry and outside militias were to blame. They felt that things had been changing in Syria (Damascus especially) and that the citizens or Syria needed to be patient. Later, and Egyptian woman was interviewed who had a negative response to President Obama's pledge to give money to Egypt. She didn't want any money from any outside sources. This is emblematic of the problem that the U.S, and president Obama faces. Some in the Middle East and North Africa want armed intervention, some want no armed intervention, but they want verbal support, still, some others don't want any verbal or anything else from the U.S. You can't win. Whatever we do will result in anger from some faction. And believe it or not, I'm a bit of an optimist.
I don't understand. Israel and the US do not grant Hamas the right to exist or a Palestinian State the right to exist independently, why is it so important that they grant Israel the right to exist before negotiations.
Why is that nobody considers the option that Osama Bin Laden is still alive and under the CIA or other mayor agency custody under a compleat interrogation process?
It makes no sense to me that you have the chance to capture the man who knows everything and you decide to just kill him?
But my question again is why nobody even mention this option??
Thanks
Regarding Strauss-Kahn......I think that since he is from white Europe that they have different racial feelings towards blacks (I'm white) and thought she would never be listened to.
I'm kind of sad about the DSK-on-Maid thing. It shows that the U.S.legal system still believes the Oligarchy can mate with us commoners. I had hoped they'd totally ex-speciated and could only achieve intromission with one another. Then they'd leave us alone. But then doesn't the Bible say in Revelations that in the end times cats will lie down with dogs.
Wouldn't it be neat if Israel was kind of a Brigadoon floating city that could move from place to place stealing water and killing farmers. Nah, the U.S, military can handle that in behalf of transnational corporations. No wonder Bebe and Obama are as confused as Bert and Ernie. Duh... should we use a Reaper or a Predator, let's ask Osama, he knows. If it weren't for secrecy they'd have nothing to hold up their pants. All men are stupid, and women who try to act like men are even stupider.
If there was law and justice people could cultivate their olives and grapes in peace and not worry.
Pancake stated
"Wouldn't it be neat if Israel was kind of a Brigadoon floating city that could move from place to place stealing water and killing farmers."
Sounds like a theme for a Harry Potter movie.
(Reporter Wang Penghao ) Men Shimou use the door card to sneak into the resignation of the company , stole a former colleague 's laptop. As the process of monitoring captured the theft ,mbt sandali, Shimou quickly captured. West 's Procuratorate said yesterday , Shimou indicted on suspicion of theft . Prosecutors said , in a building designed to serve Shimou Institute , did not return after the resignation of the company's access card ,Yan Chong , associate professor , the book challenges the court dismissed the cl,mbt uomo,Gay men cheat 6 killed by the death penalty hanging, then the idea of initiation of the theft . Morning of October 30 last year , Shimou few people take advantage of the weekend came to the original unit ,uomini mbt scarpe, the use of access card to enter the building . He then confirmed that the office area through the view no one ,Diabetic mother found the boy ran away from home the same day,sconto mbt scarpe, when the laptop is about to steal former colleagues back home in their own use. 4 days after former colleagues found that computers were stolen from the units transferred out of the surveillance video and found Shimou units during this period came ,mbt scarpe, and the left chest clothes are items within the hides , then Reported to the police .
How much is the US participating in the current NATO effort to overthrow Gaddaffi? Are we still activley using US assets to bomb the country, or are the other NATO allies doing it all?