And which the MSM never report (think Bilderberger, readers).
So this is all cover-story bullshit, isn't it, MSM?
"UN schedule promises to keep president hopping
WASHINGTON - President Obama has planned a whirlwind 2 1/2-day schedule at the United Nations later this month, going well beyond the traditional routine for US presidents.
In addition to the annual speech at the opening of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 23, Obama will host a luncheon for African heads of state and hold a separate gathering for the largest contributors to peacekeeping. The next day, he will preside over an unusual summit meeting of the Security Council on arms control. In addition, Obama will speak at the Secretary General’s climate change summit.
Lucky Ahmadinejad.
Also see: The Problem With the UN: Khadafy Makes It Clear
Slow Saturday Special: McCain's Mission Arms Terrorist
He's a friend now?
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"Obama facing week of intense pressure, high diplomatic stakes" by Ben Feller, Associated Press | September 20, 2009
WASHINGTON - The unrelenting global troubles confronting Barack Obama are about to converge on him all at once, providing a stern test of leadership for a first-year president who has pledged to “change the world.’’
In a span of four days, Obama will plunge into the politics of the United Nations and host a summit in Pittsburgh on the world’s wobbling economy. The international stage is coming to him, and no one standing on it with him will have higher stakes.
Obama is under pressure to push along stalled Mideast peace, prove the United States is serious about climate change, and rally allies against the nuclear threats of Iran and North Korea. Leaders in Europe and elsewhere are pressing Obama to reform risky US financial behavior and get Congress on board.
He also bears the load of two inherited wars that now bear his imprint - the one he’s winding down in Iraq and the one that’s widening in Afghanistan. Eight years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Obama must hold together international will as he tries to keep Afghanistan from becoming an Al Qaeda launching pad again.
Honestly, readers, I am sick of the war-mongering lying!!!
The talks have the potential to be galvanizing moments or opportunities lost....
Related:
Rice: 9/11 an “enormous opportunity”
Rumsfeld: "Why Not another 911"We don't need those kinds of opportunities!
UN ambassador Susan Rice described the message: “Everybody has a responsibility. The US is leading anew. And we are looking to others to join.’’
So far it's Israel and the British, that's it -- and the Brits are iffy.
Obama will try to put heat on Iran and North Korea without singling out any country.
With his domestic agenda consumed by health care, Obama is under pressure from world leaders to put more muscle into fighting climate change. He will seek to do just that this week, too, with a speech at a UN climate conference. Time is short, though, for the United States to have leverage. An international conference on global climate is set for December in Denmark. Although the House has passed a bill to limit greenhouse gases, Senate action may fade until next year.
Perhaps as important as the speeches will be the conversations the world never sees....
And you know whom those will be with, right?
"Hoping to restart Mideast talks, Obama enters fray; Will meet with Netanyahu, Abbas at UN" by Amy Teibel, Associated Press | September 21, 2009
JERUSALEM - President Obama will try to get Mideast peacemaking back on track this week in a meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, hoping the weight of the presidency can resolve a showdown over Israeli settlement construction and get the sides talking again...
For Obama, it’s high-stakes diplomacy that relies on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as key to cracking other world problems....
Obama faces a tough task....
About as close to impossible as there is -- if he was serious, that is, which he is not. Otherwise, the aid would stop flowing.
The Palestinians hope to build a state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with east Jerusalem as its capital.
I'm really having trouble seeing how:
Israel captured those territories in 1967.
Yup, didn't INVADE and ILLEGALLY OCCUPY, just captured.
While Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, Netanyahu has given little indication that he is ready to make territorial compromises....
No, they are STEALING MORE LAND every day!
Talks on the Palestinian side are being handled by Abbas and his moderate Palestinian Authority. The Islamic militant Hamas group that overran Gaza in 2007 is not a party to the negotiation process.
Yeah, EXCEPT HAMAS WON the ELECTIONS and the MSM KNOWS IT!!!!
"Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006"
And it is NOT really a negotiation, is it, if one party isn't there?
In Gaza yesterday, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh castigated the new US administration and said he wouldn’t recognize any accord. Obama has been eager to mend relations with the Muslim world and has put heavy pressure on Israel to halt construction of settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Netanyahu has said he will slow construction, but refused to accept an absolute freeze. While the tough stance toward Israel has been welcomed in the Arab world, it also appears to have raised Palestinian expectations. Should Obama fail to wring significant concessions from Israel, his credibility could suffer among Muslims and Arabs.
Already gone: Israel's Four-Corner Offense Implodes Obama's Credibility
His public spat with Israel over the settlements has also strained relations with the Jewish state, where many wonder whether Obama is as committed to their safety as previous US leaders were.
What bullshit! Please see: Obama Dances Hava Nagila For Israel
Bolstered by Washington’s stance, the Palestinians are showing new resolve on opposing settlement construction.... Abbas lost credibility among Palestinians after the latest round of peace talks with Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister, broke down last winter after Israel’s bruising offensive against Hamas in Gaza.
He had lost it long before then. See: Palestinian Politics
Nearly a half-million Jewish settlers live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, and the Palestinians fear their continued growth undermines the establishment of a viable Palestinian state.
Doesn't it?
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Related: Slow Saturday Special: Zionist Settlers' Rampage
Slow Saturday Special: Violent Jewish Protests
But they aren't extremists or terrorists or militants or anything.
Obama has more than that to deal with:
"In media blitz, Obama focuses on health care; Says universal mandate isn’t a new tax; Urges civility in discussions" by Ceci Connolly, Washington Post | September 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama defended proposals to place new fees on the health care industry and to reduce the government payment to insurers that operate Medicare managed-care plans, saying that “they’re making huge profits.’’
Beyond health care, the president said yesterday that he will remain skeptical about the need for more US troops in Afghanistan until he is satisfied that the military has the right strategy for winning the war there. He said Russian opposition did not influence his decision to cancel a European missile defense system. He also said he will not ask the Justice Department to end its probe into CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects.
But the interviews were devoted primarily to the battle over his health care efforts....
Really? Then why so much print about ACORN?
Obama also said the community organizing group ACORN should be investigated for offering tax help to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute in widely watched videotapes. But in the interview on ABC, the president did not say who should conduct such an investigation and played down the importance of the controversy.
“What I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated,’’ he said, but he declined to say whether he supported action by Congress to cut off federal funding for the group. “Frankly, it’s not something I’ve followed closely,’’ Obama said, adding he had not been aware that ACORN received much federal funding.
ACORN - which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - has come under fire after videotapes showing field office employees giving tax advice to two conservative activists who posed as a pimp and prostitute. Congress voted last week to cut off federal funding for the organization, and House Republicans are pursuing investigations of the group’s financial activities. ACORN said last week it would order its own investigation of the video scandal.
You mean ELECTIONS are RIGGED in AmeriKa, too?
(GASP!)
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