Tom Vilsack

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• Al Jazeera notes US Media more interested in Mickey Mouse than the Taliban

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  I am not surprised by the US media but found this Al Jazeera story interesting. Youd have been hard pressed to find much coverage of the Obama troop announcement on Wednesdays American breakfast TV. I know this because our North America editors had asked me to watch the US breakfast shows, in case there was a story ...
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• Obama finds new excuse to escape the Oval Office and fly on AF1

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  His "White House to Main Street" photo-op tour will not fix his inept handling of the economy. Under pressure from Republicans and an impatient public to fix the sputtering economic recovery, President Barack Obama is refocusing on this politically potent issue by talking job creation with business and labor ...
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• USDA says PETA is a terrorist threat

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  ”Plants have feelings. Be a Carnivore.” Says People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants (PETP). People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has been classified as a “terrorist threat” in a document created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA created a new “APHIS Facility Security Profile” ...
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• Rifqa Bary to meet parents so they can talk about Islam

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  But she will talk to them about Christianity. A government caseworker outlined a plan calling for Rifqa Bary, 17, and her parents to listen to each others views on religion. Bary needs to hear out her parents explanation of their beliefs when she goes home, according to the proposal filed in Franklin County ...
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• Kudos, Mr. President on Afghanistan

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  but a deadline is a big error. President Barack Obama invoked the September 11 attacks Tuesday in calling for the nation to unite behind his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. Obama announced he would send an additional 30,000 troops to the war-torn country on an expedited schedule so that the ...
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• Vilsack: Copenhagen is about leadership, not just climate change

  
  Iowa Independent — Authority: 618
  When American dignitaries arrive in Copenhagen next week to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference the nation will be signaling much more than its commitment to reduce greenhouse gases, said U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack speaks at an event in ...
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• Crony of agriculture chief now a Monsanto lobbyist

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Jerry Crawford, an Iowa lawyer and lobbyist with deep ties to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, recently registered as the Washington representative for Monsanto, a biotechnology and agrichemical giant that embodies the "special interests" President Obama planned to drive from the temple of federal government. The ...
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• UK’s national HC cancer rationing by region

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  Late diagnosis of cancer causes at least 10,000 premature deaths a year. Thousands of people with cancer are dying prematurely because they live in the "wrong" part of the country, a government report reveals today. Charities and MPs condemned the variations, which mean that sufferers in some parts of the ...
  2 days ago

• Send Rifqa Bary a Christmas card

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  Bary denied visitors including her minister. The authorities, at the command of the Barys’ lawyer Omar, continue to isolate her. She has been in Ohio for well over a month and still there is no “approved visitation” list. How can this be? How can it be that friends who request a visit, and whom Rifqa ...
  3 days ago

• Obama escape the Oval Office again

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  He attended a basketball game and fed his face. President Obama attended todays Oregon State-George Washington University basketball game to cheer on his brother-in-law, Beavers coach Craig Robinson. The first lady, Malia and Sasha Obama, and President Obamas mother-in-law Marian Robinson were in attendance as well. ...
  5 days ago

• Obama’s Thanksgiving dinner has 50 guests

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  but no visit to our military – only a couple phone calls. The Obamas are having an equally plentiful meal. In addition to the traditional turkey, the family is having a honey baked ham. There will also be two kinds of stuffing (oyster and cornbread), macaroni and cheese, and six -- yes, six -- different kinds of ...
  6 days ago

• The Jewish Federation Of Los Angeles Chose To Base Its Hunger Campaign On A Lie

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 145
  For the past few months, the Jewish Federation has campaigned around Los Angeles that one out of eight people in the city are hungry. It’s a big fat lie, but that hasn’t stopped synagogues, including Orthodox ones, from embracing the lie and preaching it from their pulpits. Is there any lie about America so ...
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• George Washingtons 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to "recommend to the people of the United States a ...
  1 week ago

• Security breach at Obama’s 1st state dinner

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  Heard there were cuts to the Secret Service. Tareq and Michaele Salahi appear to have taken a more direct route to fame by allegedly gatecrashing President Obamas first White House dinner on Tuesday night. The US Secret Service is investigating how the couple, who its spokesman, Ed Donovan, confirmed were not on ...
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• Planned Parenthood director quits

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  A preborn child fighting for it’s life changed her mind. Abby Johnson quit her job. That simple act has become a national news story because Johnson, 29, was the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas who said she experienced a "change of heart" while participating in an abortion procedure. "I had ...
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• No support for Obamacare

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  Majority of the people know it will raise costs and harm quality of HC. Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June. The latest ...
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• Under the big top – Obama’s 1st state dinner

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  His “big” circus tent did include republicans. Its being billed as the mother of all dinner parties as President Obama has invited 400 of his closest friends tonight to the first state dinner of his presidency at the White House. You might ask where are 400 guests going to sit down and eat dinner in the White ...
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• Kentucky Census Worker wasn’t hanged by rightwing nutbags

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  Will Democrat Underground admit their error? Something horrible happened to Bill Sparkman, who worked part-time as a Census worker in rural southeastern Kentucky. He was found dead. Tied to a tree. Preliminary tests show he died of asphyxiation. A speculative rumor spread by the Associated Press that Sparkman may ...
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• President to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks, Administration Announces U.S. Emission Target for Copenhagen

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 595
  Press Release from the White House via email. The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where he is eager to work with the international community to drive progress toward a comprehensive and operational ...
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• As Obamacare goes forward, Obama’s approval rating is at all time low

  
  C.O.P.S. — Authority: 137
  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 27% of the nations voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. This is the lowest Approval ...
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