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Video Blog: Israel Palestine

In the second installment of my video blogs I tackle the Israeli-Palestine conflict and the recent invasion into the Gaza Strip.

Part A

Part B

A New Era Of Politics

by Carey B

Yesterday the US entered what has been promised to be “a new era of politics”. President Obama has a lot of “change’s” to make in order to fix our international relationships. Like the rest of the world, I too am anxious to see what our “new era of politics” can produce abroad. Obama also has a lot of “change’s” to make in order to regain the support of our citizens, mainly the libertarian crowd and according to mainstream news, the general public.

If you voted for Obama, congratulations! I however did not vote this year and I’ll explain why. Both candidates, Obama and McCain supported things like the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, and Extreme Rendition. The worst of all of is Obama claims that there is “clean coal” energy. The scientific community, on the other hand, has flatly rejected the clean coal theory. There is no such thing as “clean” coal, in fact clean coal hasn’t even made it into the climate change discussion since October 08. Obama reportedly has a plan that designates millions of taxpayer dollars to “research” clean coal.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited that the Bush regime has ended and we get to start anew, however if you look into Obama’s economic appointees, and his cabinet you should see a Clintonesque strategy in the Obama camp. Clinton was a buisness republican maqurading as a democrat, just look at our capital during his presidency. I fear Obama might be cut of similar cloth. Clinton made social promises too, like health care and welfare reform. Welfare was reformed alright, but for the wealthy, the rest of his promises went to the wayside. However one must remember how the Clintonites got the US out of debt and awash in capital. Continuing the deregulation of markets that started with Reagan. In fact, those same individuals responsible for our current economic recession are the very same architects of the policies that created it, and are now in top positions in the Obama Whitehouse.

These are a few quotes from Obama’s Inaugural Address:

This is the source of our confidence. The knowledge that God calls on us to fulfill an uncertain destiny.

We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waiver in it’s defense.

For those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents… you cannot out last us and we will defeat you.

This looks like anything but “a new era of politics”.

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