Below is the last part of our interview with Noam Chomsky in which we discussed the presidency of Barack Obama, the health care reform, financial crisis and the federal deficit. Enjoy.
How would you summarize the presidency of Barack Obama as of now? Is he doing fine?
Noam Chomsky: Obama is a man of absolutely no principles. He has two constituencies. One of them is the popular constituency, the people who voted for him. For them he is doing essentially nothing. He has another constituency: the people who financed his campaign, the financial institutions. And they are getting rewarded. Obama came in the middle of the financial crisis so the first issue was what to do with the economic crisis? Well, he put together an economic team to deal with it but take a look at them. The business press went through the appointments and pointed out that these people should be getting subpoenas and should not be fixing the economy. They are the people who wrecked it. Read More »
You probably already know that Hugo Chavez is one of our favorite politicians ever. And to praise his achievements we combined a list the best Hugo Chavez’s accomplishments as the head of state of Venezuela. We called the list the “10 craziest moments” because it gets unbelievably crazy as you may guess. So let’s roll the tape.
1) U.S. is responsible for the earthquake in Haiti, China and probably the one in Japan. This is an absolute number one in our opinion. Last year after the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, which claimed the lives of 200,000 innocents, Hugo Chavez announced that the tragedy was caused by a secret U.S. military weapon, which can set off catastrophic earthquakes like that in Haiti. Chavez also claimed that the U.S. was behind a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in China in 2008. According to him, the U.S. is in possession of a shockwave system that can create “weather anomalies to cause floods, droughts and hurricanes” and earthquakes. Read More »
WSJ: “This past week, one of [Obama's] campaign websites posted an item entitled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having “less-than-reputable records,” the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that “quite a few” have also been “on the wrong side of the law” and profiting at “the expense of so many Americans.” Read more here
According to Jon Huntsman, Jr., former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate, “partisanship has seeped into campaigning [so much] that breaking through with a message that is beyond party politics … is a very challenging thing to do.” Yet in an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, he spoke about the importance of public service, as well as the need for fundamental tax and energy reform, the outlook for China in the coming decade, the role of the media in covering elections, his respect for Ronald Reagan and what he plans to do in the coming months. An edited version of the conversation. Read the rest here
At a time when most nations are trying to figure out how to stop Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from killing his own people in a year-long struggle to stay in power, the Venezuelan government is helping to prop him up.
The facts and figures coming out of Syria are grisly, with more than 9,000 dead since last spring. On an average day, 50 citizens are shot and killed by government security forces. Bridges and roads out of the country are blown up, preventing civilians from fleeing. Doctors are ordered to tranquilize torture victims so that they cannot speak to international observers. Journalists are assassinated. Children and women are slaughtered. Assad’s is a historically bad regime, committing undeniable crimes against humanity.
Bashar’s barbarism cannot be overstated. Together with his father Hafez’s bloody regime, Syria has seen 41 years of Assad family rule. This puts the father-son duo in North Korea and Cuba territory for longest dynastic dictatorship.
It comes as a shock, then, to see this New York Times headline : “As Others Isolate Syria, Chávez Ships Fuel to It.” And another stunner from Reuters: “Venezuela to ship more fuel to Syria as crackdown spreads.” Read More »
Batman and the Superman have left Newark once Cory Booker became its mayor. No one can stand up to Cory. He took Batman’s job of saving people’s lives and gave it to a local guy… that is to himself. Cory is a one man Mayor, one man Army, one man Fire Department and one man Police force. Cory may be the next President of the United States. Who the hell knows? But anyway, we congratulate Mr. Booker for his brave deed of saving an innocent human being from a fire.
The Obama Campaign has launched the war on stay-at-home moms… and then they realized it’s probably a bad idea and started apologizing after a huge outcry on Twitter erupted.
The porn industry released a video advocating to vote for Rick Santorum because only Santorum ensures that Obama will win in November. The win of any of the Republican candidates would mean that masturbating would be outlawed in America.
Woops. It looks like Rick Santorum had a bad tongue slip. He probably wanted to call Barack Obama a government “niggard,” which means stingy or ungenerous, but he ended up calling him a “nigger”. Will Barack Obama say that Rick Santorum could be his own son? No, ain’t going to happen. Rick, we think it’s time for you to get out of the race and make space for Massachusetts liberal to challenge the Illinois liberal.
He can pass an unconstitutional health care law. He can stimulate the economy with trillions of dollars. He can run up the public debt to the Greece’s limits. He can call a beer summit. He can speak out loudly when a black professor is being arrested by a white cop and a black kid is being gunned down by a white vigilante. But that’s not all. He can also sing and when singing he is sexy and he knows it.
Below is the last part of our interview with Noam Chomsky in which we discussed the presidency of Barack Obama, the health care reform, financial crisis and the federal deficit. Enjoy.
You probably already know that Hugo Chavez is one of our favorite politicians ever. And to praise his achievements we combined a list the best Hugo Chavez’s accomplishments as the head of state of Venezuela. We called the list the “10 craziest moments” because it gets unbelievably crazy as you may guess. So let’s roll the tape.
WSJ: “This past week, one of [Obama's] campaign websites posted an item entitled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having “less-than-reputable records,” the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that “quite a few” have also been “on the wrong side of the law” and profiting at “the expense of so many Americans.”
According to Jon Huntsman, Jr., former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate, “partisanship has seeped into campaigning [so much] that breaking through with a message that is beyond party politics … is a very challenging thing to do.” Yet in an interview with Knowledge@Wharton, he spoke about the importance of public service, as well as the need for fundamental tax and energy reform, the outlook for China in the coming decade, the role of the media in covering elections, his respect for Ronald Reagan and what he plans to do in the coming months. An edited version of the conversation. 
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