Former President Barack Obama will sit side-by-side with German Chancellor Angela Merkel Thursday in the first event of what will eventually become his worldwide program to inspire young people to create change.
Obama will join Merkel at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to highlight his foundation's new global effort to inspire and support young people active in narrowing inequality, combating climate change, working on public health, empowering women and girls and boosting young entrepreneurs.
"He and Mrs. Obama have been pretty clear that the foundation will have a global reach. They want to be really involved in programing throughout the world," an Obama Foundation official said.
Just a reminder that while Trump is overseas right now embarrassing our country, that former President Obama is still working to make the world a better place and to inspire future generations.
I swear that every day Trump is in office my admiration and respect for President Obama just grows that much more.
The man was an amazing President, and history is going to be very kind to him indeed.
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"A Ni&&ers calling ME?..."
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“These statues are not just stone and metal,” Landrieu said on Friday. “They’re not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy — ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that it actually stood for.”
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Delete“President Donald Trump has to do what’s in the best interest of his administration. And they’ve cut people loose before, I don’t know why, so time will tell, but I know that he values loyalty.”“They’re saying certain words and phrases I should have put quotation marks around. OK, alright, fine. Maybe from a formatting standpoint the thesis isn’t perfect, but the content is there.”
OT?"US President Donald Trump slams attackers as 'LOSERS'."
ReplyDelete"British Prime Minister says police have identified the suspect."
"A 23-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in south Manchester in connection with the bombing."
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Keep up with that^
Delete"intelligence agents had found “contacts and interaction” between the Trump campaign and Russian agents — which concerned him enough to turn the data over to law enforcement agencies for examination."
Hey, Anony-Mouse; stop posting links and just say what YOU have to say.
ReplyDeletePosting links is lazy.
At the very least, give a summary or put a few lines in quotes so we get an idea of what the link is about.
DeleteI ignore posts that are nothing but a link and no comment. I consider it spam and couldn't be bothered reading an anonymous link.
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"Kalian and Witztum stressed that nearly all of the tourists who demonstrated the described behaviours were mentally ill prior to their arrival in Jerusalem."
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"It seems difficult to imagine how this administration could figure out how to design and pass a tax cut that could pay for itself when Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush failed to come anywhere close to doing so. If there is a group of economic minds with the special genius to accomplish this historically unprecedented feat, it is probably not the fiscal minds who just made a $2 trillion basic arithmetic error."
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Oh, it's easy.
DeleteThey're siphoning money from the social safety net to pay for the tax cuts for the wealthy and to pour even more money into an obscenely bloated military budget.
Social Security Disability, SNAP and Medicaid will all be cut, plus more.
I hope the very voters that put Trump in office are the first to get all of their "subsidies" cut. Will serve them right for voting against their own best interests and the best interest of the nation.
"wants Congress to cut food stamps and other anti-poverty programs in order to pay for more military spending and a border wall, according to a budget proposal the White House will formally unveil on Tuesday."
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May Trump die soon w/his soul going to Hell. He's not pro America or Americans by any stretch of the imagination. He detests the poor and minorities - factual and proven on a daily basis!
DeletePussy RioT Girl"They both are managing to reflect the worst impulses of our world. Greedy, unethical, uncaring."
ReplyDelete"As a former KGB agent, Putin simply does not believe in beliefs. Everyone who “believes” can be bribed or intimidated. Money, prison or a gun can neutralize any “conviction.”Putin is an incredibly ordinary KGB agent"
"Stealing money from the Russian people may be Putin’s only consistent idea."“The rounds turned out to be blanks, so I had to smother HER."
"Putin claims to be a religious person. He’s not"
Putin condemned Pussy Riot for dancing in a church and demanding women’s rights, saying that he’s the one who’ll save Christianity from devilish witches like us."
"there is no person who I can not fire"
"They religiously believe that all connections have to be profitable transactions. Trump is maniacally obsessed with “winning.” He is able to simplify the whole wide world to the degrading opposition “win”/”lose.” KGB agent Putin knows that you have just two options: you’ll eat someone, or you’ll be eaten. In Trump’s and Putin’s world we don’t really care about human dignity, we care about human capital. Dignity is not profitable."
"The erosion of civil society feels very real. And not just in Russia, which traditionally is labeled by Americans as the “unfree world.” This erosion is no less real in the so-called “free world” too, citizens of which have been so positive for so long about the fact that they are free, they’ve forgotten what it looks like to stand up for their rights. We’re re-learning now, together."we are not just in resistance, we’re proactive. We live according to OUR VALUES right now."
We know that there is a power in an intersectional, international, inclusive union of people."
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