Posts tagged obama

Posted 4 months ago

The international financial sanctions and the EU oil embargo last year have caused severe damage to the Iranian economy but have so far not forced the Tehran regime to accept restrictions on its uranium enrichment programme. Iran insists it is for electricity generation and medical purposes, while the west and Israel claim it is a front for Iranian ambitions to build nuclear weapons. Major western powers have suggested a new round of talks in Istanbul in mid-January, but Tehran has yet to confirm any date or venue.

Meanwhile, the scale of the looming Iranian health crisis threatens to overwhelm recent efforts to mitigate the sanctions regime. At present 85,000 new cancer patients are diagnosed each year, requiring chemotherapy and radiotherapy which are now scarce. Iranian health experts say that annual figure has nearly doubled in five years, referring to a “cancer tsunami” most likely caused by air, water and soil pollution and possibly cheap low-quality imported food and other products.

Posted 6 months ago

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

“Anti-war protesters outside tonight’s debate, protesting alongside immigrant youth Dreamers, who have been protesting this administration’s failure to push the Dream Act and 1 million deportations. Photo taken by PSL presidential candidate Peta Lindsay, who has been excluded from the debate and is speaking outside.”

Posted 7 months ago
No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom.’ If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

President Barack Obama

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Posted 7 months ago
Posted 7 months ago
[When Barack Obama says] “Justice will be done” [it] means without due process. It means probably, the track record is, is to use either drone attacks or other weapons to kill people without due process. Now that may make people here [in USA] feel good temporarily but all it will do is further compound the hatred and resentment for US policy which is at the heart of the problem here.
Posted 7 months ago
facts-i-just-made-up:

sexymodesttotalscreaminggenius:

I think she’s right behind the sign. Are we taking up a collection to send her back? Also, where the hell is ‘Kenia’ anyway? What sort of transportation options do we have?

Kenia is a magical land located off the shores of Paraguay. 
The only way to get to Kenia is to wish upon the second star to the right on a Thursday between Christmas and Next Christmas.
In Kenia, all the trees grow down into the ground and all their roots grow up into the sky.  The skies there are orange, except at sunset when they all turn blue.  Summer is cold there and winter is hot.  It was a beautiful land full of happy people, until the fire nation attacked.
The kind people of Kenia banded together to protect their sacred fool.  You see, the fool of any given village in Kenia is a person of honor.  A person treasured for their innocence and simple nature.  The term in Kenia has no connotations of stupidity, only of bright eyes and hope. So they found the child, Barakabama, who was ironically born to an American mother and was thus a natural U.S. citizen regardless of place of birth, but I digress.
Barakabama was secreted away and shipped to the United States to outlive the attacks. There the child thrived, grew into adulthood and protected the people of Metropolis with magic Kenian powers, for the orange skies of Kenia are lit by a weaker sun than those of the U.S.A. and moving gave this blessed one abilities to speak more intelligently than any republican, to leap tall tale accusations in a single news conference and more.
But Kenia is a dark and sad land now.  The attacks are over but their sacred idiot is gone.  So this kind lady above is trying to raise awareness.  Kenia has “Nobama” as of 2012, as is written on the side of the sign.  I make no excuse for her pathetic misuse of “there” but she means well.
So search the land for young Barakabama, savior of Kenia, who was last described as a pale white girl and should be around 18 by now, last known by the alias of “Justine Bieber” and send help her back to Kenia where she belongs.
(OP would like it known that the lady in the photo was spoofing republican idiocy and is not herself such a creature)

facts-i-just-made-up:

sexymodesttotalscreaminggenius:

I think she’s right behind the sign. Are we taking up a collection to send her back? Also, where the hell is ‘Kenia’ anyway? What sort of transportation options do we have?

Kenia is a magical land located off the shores of Paraguay. 

The only way to get to Kenia is to wish upon the second star to the right on a Thursday between Christmas and Next Christmas.

In Kenia, all the trees grow down into the ground and all their roots grow up into the sky.  The skies there are orange, except at sunset when they all turn blue.  Summer is cold there and winter is hot.  It was a beautiful land full of happy people, until the fire nation attacked.

The kind people of Kenia banded together to protect their sacred fool.  You see, the fool of any given village in Kenia is a person of honor.  A person treasured for their innocence and simple nature.  The term in Kenia has no connotations of stupidity, only of bright eyes and hope. So they found the child, Barakabama, who was ironically born to an American mother and was thus a natural U.S. citizen regardless of place of birth, but I digress.

Barakabama was secreted away and shipped to the United States to outlive the attacks. There the child thrived, grew into adulthood and protected the people of Metropolis with magic Kenian powers, for the orange skies of Kenia are lit by a weaker sun than those of the U.S.A. and moving gave this blessed one abilities to speak more intelligently than any republican, to leap tall tale accusations in a single news conference and more.

But Kenia is a dark and sad land now.  The attacks are over but their sacred idiot is gone.  So this kind lady above is trying to raise awareness.  Kenia has “Nobama” as of 2012, as is written on the side of the sign.  I make no excuse for her pathetic misuse of “there” but she means well.

So search the land for young Barakabama, savior of Kenia, who was last described as a pale white girl and should be around 18 by now, last known by the alias of “Justine Bieber” and send help her back to Kenia where she belongs.

(OP would like it known that the lady in the photo was spoofing republican idiocy and is not herself such a creature)

(Source: baby-eater)

Posted 7 months ago

liberals and democrats, can we acknowledge the fact that while obama’s domestic policies are pretty cool his foreign policy is deeply flawed?

it doesn’t mean we have to hate him or not vote for him, but we need to hold him accountable for how his administration is treating brown folks overseas.

this has been a post.

Posted 8 months ago

breeilnabane:

zarggg:

rickybrugal:

junkycosmonaut:

littleoneinnyc:

All I can hear in my head right now is Oprah screaming “YOU get a gay husband, YOU get a gay husband, EVERYBODY GETS A GAY HUSBAAAAAAND!”

I had a straight husband, and we all know how that turned out. BRING ME MY GAY HUSBAND.

MY WARDROBE IS ABOUT TO DOUBLE

^ Best possible response.

It’s raining men!

(Source: littlelassinlondon)

Posted 8 months ago
Yusufzai, who reported on the attack, says those killed in the follow-up strike ‘were trying to pull out the bodies, to help clear the rubble, and take people to hospital.’ The impact of drone attacks on rescuers has been to scare people off, he says: ‘They’ve learnt that something will happen. No one wants to go close to these damaged building anymore.’

US drone strikes target rescuers in Pakistan – and the west stays silent.

Read that again: Rescuers are being killed. Drones are dropped on funerals and weddings. American foreign policy at it again.

(via mehreenkasana)
Posted 8 months ago

Romney raises “birther” issue, Obama releases birth certificate. On a coffee mug.

stirlazy:

Today in Michigan, Mitt Romney passive-aggressively questioned Barack Obama’s status as a U.S. born citizen, even though it’s been put to rest a hundred times and Romney himself has said that he believes President Obama was born in the United States. 

Obama, or at least his marketing team, responded in a timely and appropriate manner, by tweeting the video for Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” And then releasing his birth certificate on a coffee mug, available for purchase in the official Obama for America store.

This is all on the heels of some good-natured interns engaging in a gif war with the official VH1 tumblr over whose tumblr is better. The measure of quality? Usage of Darren Criss gifs. The battle started last night and wrapped up this afternoon, ending in tweets from both VH1 and tumblr encouraging voter registration. 

And this is why I love the President.

Barack Obama understands that the “youth” vote, those who have reached voting eligibility in the internet age, is the vote that is up for grabs. Not only in terms of who to vote for, but whether or not to vote at all. 

Obama’s team is sharp and savvy and knows how to connect to this group, so powerful but underestimated and underutilized. The baby boomers will vote how they’ve always voted; they’re not easily swayed and a mug or an ad aren’t going to do anything to make them tick a different box, or even get to the polls. But my generation?

We see someone we can relate to, who takes the time to relate to us with a sympathetic ear and a tongue in cheek reference, be it personally or through his team, and we can be convinced. We can be motivated.

We can make a difference.

If you haven’t registered to vote yet, please do so here. It’s fast, it’s easy, and it’s the most important thing you will ever do.

Posted 8 months ago

aetherodactyl:

My fellow Americans, come November we must choose to elect either a gay cactus or a lying unicorn.

Oh and both of them are the antichrist.

Posted 9 months ago
strawberreli:

kileyrae:

demnewswire:

Bill Nye the Science Guy visits New Hampshire as part of the “Out-Educate” tour.

Bill Nye the Obama Guy.

awesome

strawberreli:

kileyrae:

demnewswire:

Bill Nye the Science Guy visits New Hampshire as part of the “Out-Educate” tour.

Bill Nye the Obama Guy.

awesome

Posted 1 year ago
I signed a bill saying that every hospital must treat gay and lesbian partners the same as heterosexual partners, because NO ONE should have to produce a legal contract to be able to hold the hand of the one they love.
President Barack Obama - Human Rights Campaign Dinner (10/1/11)

(Source: thesoapboxschtick)

Posted 1 year ago
flynnanigans:

holdontoyourassbutts:

fuckyeahethnicmen:

14kgoldnyc:

andyouhavetogivethemhope:

Recent photo of a little boy visiting the White House. He wanted to feel Obama’s hair because he wanted to know if the President’s hair felt just like his. Obama obliged. Priceless.

(via schantalw)

flynnanigans:

holdontoyourassbutts:

fuckyeahethnicmen:

14kgoldnyc:

andyouhavetogivethemhope:

Recent photo of a little boy visiting the White House. He wanted to feel Obama’s hair because he wanted to know if the President’s hair felt just like his. Obama obliged. Priceless.

(via schantalw)

Posted 1 year ago

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Protest outside the Paramount Theater during President Obama’s visit to Seattle, Washington, Sept. 25, 2011.

Photo by Blueberry666