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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Michael Bloomberg) has appointed new commissioners in the departments of environmental protection and probation.

headed by Kasvell Holloway (Caswell Holloway), who worked with the Deputy Mayor Edward Skaylerom (Edward Skyler).

water quality in the city. Also solves the problem of water supply, wastewater pereraboki and monitors the storage of hazardous materials.

Washington Department of Services reabilititsii youth. [More]

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White House spokesman said on Friday that the international community is beginning to lose patience with regard to Iran’s nuclear program and Tehran will be liable if it fails to meet its obligations.

Agency (IAEA) on November 27 adopted a resolution criticizing Iran’s nuclear program. In support of this document voted 25 of the countries represented at the IAEA, and only 3 against.patience of the international community is not limitless, and the time comes. [More]

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday Barack Obama had the “stench” of his predecessor as U.S. president and was at risk of being killed if he tries to change the American “empire.”

Most world leaders expect a new era of U.S. foreign relations when Obama, a Democrat, is sworn in as president on Tuesday after Republican George W. Bush’s eight years in the White House.

But Chavez said frayed ties with Washington were unlikely to improve despite the departure of Bush, who the Venezuelan leader has often called the “devil.”
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A shoe factory in Turkey had to hire 100 additional employees to cope with the increase in orders after the incident in which an Iraqi journalist he launched his pair of shoes to U.S. President George W. Bush.

Bayda has his shoe factory in Istanbul and said that was what made the shoes.

Now says it has tens of thousands of orders throughout the world, including Iraq and the United States. The shoe is the Model 271 but after the fact he changed the name to the shoe Bush, said the shoe store.

However, the brother of journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who launched the shoes to U.S. president, believes the pair is manufactured in Iraq. Durgham al-Zaidi criticized by people trying to exploit the action of his brother for commercial purposes.

“The Syrians claim that was made in Syria and the Turks claim that they were. Some suggest that bought in Egypt, but as far as I know those bought in Baghdad and were manufactured in Iraq,” he told the news agency AFP.

It is difficult to determine exactly where they were fabricated and that the journalist has not been seen since the incident eight days ago and the judge in the case says that the shoes were destroyed. In any case, Bogatekin Oner, head of exports of shoes Bayda noted that employees recognized the pattern on the news.

“We saw in the videos and in the newspapers. We have been producing these shoes for ten years, so we know them very well and we can recognize them anywhere,” he told the BBC. The employees say they recognized that in the video is the Model 271.

According to the owner of the shoe store, Ramazan Bayda, a U.S. company ordered 18,000 pairs. In addition some 15,000 additional will be sent to Iraq and a distributor in the UK applied to become a sales representative in Europe. Bogatekin said the shoe was happy with the publicity but insisted that the shoe would not hurt to President Bush. “There’s really no shoes are heavy so it would not hurt,” he said.

Muntadar al-Zaidi has been declared a hero by some after his pair of shoes thrown at Bush during a press conference in Baghdad on Dec. 14. That action is considered a very grave insult in the Arab world.

Bush also called for “dog” and said it was acting on the “widows and orphans and all those who died in Iraq.” Is expected to be tried on December 31 charged with “aggression against a foreign head of state” which implies a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.

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2008 slip away, but the rituals do not change media. Time magazine awarded the prize personality of the year on Wednesday. And the winner is … Barack Obama. The elected president is followed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarah Palin, ambushed, arrives at the 4th place of honor. Abstract images with Associated Press.Comments of Time “for his insurance to outline ambitious future in this dark period, and for its ability to show qualities that give hope to Americans that it can achieve, the president-elect is the personality of the year Time.

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Just go, on profit that the United States are not ready for a woman or a representative of racial minorities. Theory which has been unanimously, the results of presidential elections have, in fino, spray.

A black man against a backdrop of white house. The official photo of President-elect apparently does not lack contrast. It may be déjà vu for fans of Morgan Freeman, but it is a first in Real Show.

The “Negro” marker for the pseudo-scientific theory establishing natural right to slavery, to “Afro-American”. Jim Crow laws of segregation, until the presidential elections in 2008. Nothing is impossible and definitely we can legitimately go four ways.

In any well honorably, a post-racial America praised its new president: Barack Obama.

True to himself throughout this marathon companion, the candidate for the famous and eternal slogan “change we need” will man the situation. The attacks of September 11, the policy against terrorism, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Patriot Act, then the subprime crisis and the plan Paulson finally BUSH brief review is all the right things that the Americans vote for change.

After eight years of reign neoconservative hard, stubbornly paranoid warmongering and gasoline, Obama raised a great enthusiasm among U.S. and creates a real passion to the world. Up hill and down dale, he is Chairman Post identity, post-modern, cosmopolitan and multilateralist.

As the rhetoric, his perfect mastery of the English language and techniques of speaking up as the black Demosthenes of modern times. The Philadelphia speech on race and the Berlin say a lot about his eloquence. He often blame its rigidity, OBAMA is a white-collar elite, although it is a true black on playgrounds, he rarely used the self, a custom in American political life since Clinton and what BUSH excelled , In the absence of anything else.

The question of identity, pitfalls in principle was seen, manageable. For the more nostalgic, the new president of the United States entered the cemetery of error Sartre and shakes his negritude poetic in his grave. Nevertheless qu’OBAMA understood that play on the register of racism mènerai the impasse. Black father and mother Blonde, he capitalized on his identity sometimes mixed sometimes biracial. It symbolized the union as well. Ghetto bond obligation, it would turn into boomerangs attacks from this time of his clan. Some try within the African American community have created a distorted between those who identify themselves as black southerners descendants of slaves and those from immigrant families - where OBAMA-considered elitist. Faced with this hardening of the Democratic Party of obedience is not the wish of black candidate but a black candidate. To save his, the candidate spoke former professo. The color is in no way a program for a presidential candidate. And so he was able to deal with the issue affinity identity remarkable. [More]

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On this day of the outcome of U.S. elections that have just bless Barack Obama as the first black president of USA I can not help but think of Martin Luther King who has opened 40 years ago. When the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 gave his famous speech “I Have a Dream” at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on August 28 1963 he already dreamed of this moment. A simple prediction …
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[...] I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. ” [More]

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Among the many enthusiastic reviewers who have followed the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States, many are delighted to see America again in the state to exercise global leadership which had denied the irresponsibility of the previous administration. The enthusiasm comes from a majority of Americans, which is not surprising, but many Europeans, including, of course, many French.It seems that all these people find joy with a mixture without power guardianship whose follies or crimes of GWBush teams had temporarily tarnished the image.
For several years, these unfortunate Europeans had wandered without the usual benchmarks for half a century had made devotion to America if reassuring.The trace of the father, he simply followed to be in good, seemed to have lost in nature.They would have to invent only one destiny, be defined only friends and enemies, only get to work to produce their values, rather than simply import them (at a price it is true that no one wanted to evaluate) . [More]

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In the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, the Bush administration decided with the approval of Congress to tackle the Taliban and bases of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. While theorists in vogue the Bush team had theorized a foreign policy more modest and against any hint of “nation building” (as indirect criticism that the Clinton Administration had undertaken in the former Yugoslavia and in negotiations Peace in the Middle East for the creation of a Palestinian state). A less arrogant foreign policy was to refocus on domestic issues.
The earthquake of September 11 swept in a few days and this position has allowed neo-conservatives close to the Bush team to take this opportunity to declare a war without end against rogue states sponsoring terrorism and producing / using weapons of destruction mass. The fear has become in a few days, the central pillar of what would become the trademark of a Bush presidency to the search for ideological guidance. Whether the much criticized “Patriotic Act” or incredible process leading to the disastrous adventure in Iraq in 2003, fear, imbued with extraordinary emotion created by the disaster on September 11, was systematically used by the Bush team to achieve goals and electoral warmongering. Despite the firm opposition of European countries and United Nations, the United States would engage in a war that has cost at least 2 trillion dollars and lives of tens of thousands of Iraqis and more than 3 miles soldiers American. The terrorist risk is not commensurate with the period preceding the war. This war has become a huge box of facilitating the recruitment and indoctrination of new terrorist networks and the spread of a phenomenon that metastatic waver authoritarian governments and unstable countries in the Middle and Near East, Pakistan and the Africa. The image of the United States in the world has never been as bad and Al-Qaeda is more powerful than ever.

The other important element to remember is the policy pursued by Bill Clinton between the 2 wars in Iraq. With the systematic bombing and embargo imposed by the sanctions following the first war, the country has been broken (hunger, infant mortality record, fierce repression against the Kurds and Shiites). It is difficult to repeat history but with hindsight, it is possible to affirm that Sadam Hussein was no worse dictator than other countries in the region and especially Iraq was not an imminent threat against the interests vital United States. Bush’s war was a natural extension of the policy pursued by Bill Clinton during the 90s.

Barack Obama says he must not only stop this disastrous war by withdrawing all U.S. troops no later than 2009 and make it clear that the U.S. does not maintain permanent military base in Iraq but to stop the influence of fear as a tool demagogic and influence to achieve geopolitical purposes and to win elections at home (like the incredible re-election of Bush in 2004 despite its abysmal in Iraq).

Barack Obama unlike Hillary Clinton opposed the Iraq war from the beginning. Hillary Clinton actually voted in favor of a law allowing President Bush to lead military action in Iraq.

Barack Obama will be more credible face to John Mc-Cain by the contrast of the proposed policies for the future (exit war for one, stay 100 years if necessary to win the war for another) and positioning candidates in the past (Republicans harshly attacked the position “flip flop” of Clinton as they have done so well against John Kerry in 2004).

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He was with Barack Obama in the Middle East on the way, but Deputy feels Chuck Hagel not appointed. He was in the Office of the Vice President not interested, said the Republican Senator in the U.S. broadcaster CBS. Obama, Sheehan at the same time a rejection of a possible candidate: Even Senator Reed, the Democratic presidential candidates such as hail accompanied in the Middle East and in conversation, has no desire to do the job. He wanted to continue working in Congress, said Reed. Obama meanwhile stressed that he wanted a deputy who was independent and “is willing to tell me if I was wrong.” [More]

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