BBC News: President Obama drinks water in crisis-hit Flint

President Obama drinks water in crisis-hit Flint – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36206897

this pressed for your right to know: Republicans quickly criticized Obama’s move on immigration, calling it presidential overreach.— Capital Journal (@WSJPolitics) November 21, 2014

Republicans quickly criticized Obama‘s move on immigration, calling it presidential overreach. http://t.co/l9QZ92pGNl pic.twitter.com/SB1nyeRUQh

— Capital Journal (@WSJPolitics) November 21, 2014

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this pressed for your right to know: House Republicans sue Obama administration over health care law— The Truth 24 US (@TheTruth24US) November 21, 2014

House Republicans sue Obama administration over health care law http://t.co/PtNhtbElO8

— The Truth 24 US (@TheTruth24US) November 21, 2014

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Other presidents exercised exec. power on immigration policy, but Obama may set precedent.— ProPublica (@ProPublica)

Other presidents exercised exec. power on immigration policy, but Obama may set precedent. http://t.co/St9r1hoIpE pic.twitter.com/vu4xLSvmhh

— ProPublica (@ProPublica) November 21, 2014

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This pressed for your right to know: President Obama works on tomorrow night’s immigration speech w Cody Keenan and David Litt — petesouza (@petesouza)

President Obama works on tomorrow night’s immigration speech w Cody Keenan and David Litt pic.twitter.com/rnwEJ1x8G1

— petesouza (@petesouza) November 20, 2014

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this pressed for our right to know: Obama says he will take action to reform immigration policy before the end of the year — Reuters Politics

Obama says he will take action to reform immigration policy before the end of the year: http://t.co/njiqqalXxz pic.twitter.com/s0xTEhPk0i

— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) November 14, 2014

this pressed for your right to know: The Big Bank Backlash Begins – ProPublica

From left: Robert Khuzami, Obama’s first enforcement director; Linda Chatman Thomsen, who served at the George W. Bush-era S.E.C.; and George Canellos, who just left the Obama S.E.C. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images, Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, Brendan McDermid/Reuters /Landov)

Excerpts:  “Last week, I visited an alternate universe. The real world sees a pandemic of bank misconduct, but to the white-collar defense lawyers of Washington, the banks are the victims as they bow beneath the weight of regulators’ remarkably harsh punishments.

I was attending the Securities Enforcement Forum, a gathering of top regulators and white-collar defense worthies. The marquee section was a panel that included Andrew Ceresney, the current S.E.C. enforcement director, and five of his predecessors. Four of those former S.E.C. officials represent corporations at prominent white-collar law firms: Robert S. Khuzami, President Obama’s first enforcement director who now plies his trade at Kirkland & Ellis; Linda Chatman Thomsen, who served at the George W. Bush-era S.E.C. and now works for Davis Polk & Wardwell; William R. McLucas, the longest-serving agency enforcement director who is now at WilmerHale; and George S. Canellos, who just left the Obama S.E.C. to work for Milbank Tweed. (The well-known Stanley Sporkin, who served in the agency in the 1970s, rounded the panel out.)”

via The Big Bank Backlash Begins – ProPublica.

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this pressed for your right to know: Obama Says Ebola Travel Bans Could Make Things Worse – NBC News.com

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to avoid hysteria over Ebola, and played down the idea of travel bans from Ebola-ravaged countries in West Africa, explaining that restrictions could make things worse. Lawmakers this week urged Obama to bar people from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea from entering the United States. Obama has said he is not philosophically opposed to travel bans, but in his weekly address made it clear that he is not leaning toward them.

“We can’t just cut ourselves off from West Africa,” Obama said, explaining it would make it harder to move health workers and supplies into the region, and would motivate people trying to get out the region to evade screening, making it harder to track cases. “Trying to seal off an entire region of the world – if that were even possible – could actually make the situation worse,” he said.

via Obama Says Ebola Travel Bans Could Make Things Worse – NBC News.com.

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Former Obama spokesman floats flight ban to fight Ebola: The Truth 24.com (by: CBSNews)

Excepts: ” Carney said on CNN. “I think that would demonstrate a level of seriousness in response to this that is merited at this point.”

Administration officials insist that a travel ban could actually hurt efforts to fight the virus. The move would “slow down the ability of the United States and other international partners to actually get expertise and capabilities and equipment into the affected areas,” White House Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco said earlier this month.

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The idea of a travel ban is certain to come up at a congressional hearing on the U.S. response to Ebola Thursday afternoon. Seven of the panel’s 14 Republicans say it’s time for the administration to at least consider restricting the flow of people from West Africa to the U.S., and House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday afternoon that a temporary travel ban, “is something that the president should absolutely consider” in response to the crisis. (16/10/2014 19:20     by: CBSNews)

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this pressed: Obama Calls for Better Protocol in US Ebola Cases

President Barack Obama called for immediate steps to ensure the U.S. medical system is ready to follow the proper protocol for treating Ebola patients. Obama spoke Sunday with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell about the first case of Ebola transmission in the United States. Obama ordered the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to quickly investigate how a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital contracted the virus. The nurse was part of the team treating the first Ebola patient to be diagnosed in the United States, Thomas Duncan, who died last week.

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this pressed: Obama hits at companies moving overseas to avoid taxes – The Washington Post

The Obama administration took action Monday to discourage corporations from moving their headquarters abroad to avoid U.S. taxes, announcing new rules designed to make such transactions significantly less profitable.

via Obama hits at companies moving overseas to avoid taxes – The Washington Post.

this pressed: Two-dinner Hollande hosts Obama and Putin seeking Ukraine thaw | Reuters

Two-dinner Hollande hosts Obama and Putin seeking Ukraine thaw | Reuters.

“Nobody can refuse French cuisine… Hope it settles well and agrees with everyone’s stomach…”

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Obama’s Changes to Government Surveillance – NYTimes.com

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Five overlooked costs of the NSA surveillance flap – CSMonitor.com

With his family by his side, Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States by Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr. in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009. More than 5,000 men and women in uniform are providing military ceremonial support to the presidential inauguration, a tradition dating back to George Washington’s 1789 inauguration. VIRIN: 090120-F-3961R-919 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

John C. Inglis, official National Security Agency portrait. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

, former director of the NSA and deputy director of the CIA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

An ad on the side of a Metro bus in Washington, D.C., speaks to the fact that some people feel accused leaker Edward Snowden deserves praise for revealing secret NSA surveillance programs.
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From Democracy Now: “The Empire President: Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s “Neo-Con” Doctrine of Military Force in U.N. Speech”

From Democracy Now:  “In an address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama openly embraced an aggressive military doctrine backed by previous administrations on using armed force beyond the international norm of self-defense. Obama told the world that the United States is prepared to use its military to defend what he called “our core interests” in the Middle East: U.S. access to oil. “[Obama] basically came out and said the U.S. is an imperialist nation and we’re going to do whatever we need to do to conquer areas [and] take resources from people around the world,” says independent journalist Jeremy Scahill. “It’s a really naked declaration of imperialism … When we look back at Obama’s legacy, this is going to have been a very significant period in U.S. history where the ideals of very radical right-wing forces were solidified. President Obama has been a forceful, fierce defender of empire.”