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The Daily Walk with Miracles, from Cheney: Obama has ‘no credibility’ — but the NSA is ‘to be believed’, June 16, 2013, by David Edwards, used with permission, quoted verbatim.:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday asserted that President Barack Obama has “no credibility” on the so-called war on terror.

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace pointed out to the former vice president in a recently-recorded interview that Obama had said that his administration had “scrubbed” National Security Agency (NSA) spying programs and added oversight after Cheney left office.

Cheney insisted that the people operating the NSA programs collecting Internet and phone data authorized by President George W. Bush “are as fine as fine officers as you’re going to find anyplace in the United States military.”

“I trust these guys implicitly with my life. And what I make of what they’re saying is they are to be believed,” he said. “They’re good, honest Americans. They’re patriotic. But they also care very much about their responsibility to safeguard civil liberties.”

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“I don’t pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama said,” Cheney continued. “Because I find a lot of it — in other areas, for example, IRS, Benghazi — not credible. I’m obviously not a fan of the incumbent president. I don’t know what he did to the program.”

Wallace pointed out that the president had indicated that the war on terror was coming to an end, and wondered if that made it harder to justify the vast NSA surveillance.

“First of all, he’s wrong,” Cheney declared. “It’s not winding down… The threat’s bigger than ever.”

“So, he’s just dead wrong on the status of the threat,” he added. “In terms of credibility, I don’t think he has credibility. And one of the biggest problems we have is we’ve got an important point where the president of the United States ought to be able to stand up and say, ‘This is a righteous program, it’s a good program, it saved American lives, and I support it.’”

“The problem is the guy has failed to forthright and honest and credible on things like Benghazi and the IRS. So, he’s got no credibility.”

Commentary by Paul Evans:

Cheney knows that there are basically three or four reasons he has come out of virtual seclusion and has spoken to the press and the public. 1.) In the first place, there are those among Democrats who think that Cheney likes being in the spotlight and just wants publicity. He must miss the days of the first George W. Bush administration when he basically ran the country.

2.) Cheney was likely also trying to “trash” Obama. He wanted, and in the manner in which The Raw Story closes their article, to reinject life into the IRS and Benghazi scandals.

3.) He also was, more than trashing just Obama, wanted to paint the Democrats as too liberal for the country’s good. By hitting Democrat posions, they get at Obama too I guess, but it went further than that. The Democratic Party, of course, would be ruined for the 2014 elections if Obama really took one on the chin.

4.) In fact, Obama is more of a middle-of-the-road sort of Democrat. By getting legislation to be halted or made very conservative, which is the way it has been going with Obama, Cheney and the G.O.P. hope to affect the outcomes of all of these points I spoke of above. Actually, I don’t see why the Republicans hate Obama so much. He is economically much more conservative in his economics than almost any liberal would like. He is a hawk on foreign policy matters, putting a lot more money into defense and national security programs even than did Bush. Religiously, I believe that in reality Obama is a dedicated Christian, in his heart of hearts.

The fact that President Obama is not so vocal in matters of religion is caused by the same main factor that has caused so much of the legislation he signed to be actually rather conservative. He is trying, I strongly believe, to represent ALL of the American people, and not just Democrats. However Congress seems to be incapable of passing legislation which is good for the American people.

You should realize that the American people can be fooled part of the time, or almost always, it has seemed to me, at least a good deal of the time. But they have somewhat figured out Congress. That is why Congress’ approval rating recently dipped to a 10 percent approval. If you read the Gallup article at the link, you can see that this approval rating is the lowest since Gallop began measuring Congress’ approval in 1963. Their approval rating is the lowest of the 13 organizations studied, lower in fact than banks.

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Gloria’s Cottage has been helping provide food, shelter and a better life for Nigeria’s motherless children since 1972. We enable young people under the age of 12 to learn how to take care of themselves later in life, and we educate our children, as well.

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Nigeria is a nation on the west coast of Africa with a population of 170 million people. Wikipedia states that "Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, (and) the seventh most populous country in the world…."

Because Nigeria is split between a largely Muslim northeast and a mostly Christian south, religious violence has claimed untold lives here, and there are many orphans. A battle festers in the north between government forces, assisted by UN soldiers, and the Islamists Boko Haram, militant jihadists who seek to establish traditional Muslim sharia law. Also, Nigeria produces one-sixth of the world’s oil, but very little revenue from this reaches the people.

Nigeria has become all too well known for corruption and crime, much of which involves internet fraud. See What Nigeria Should Do to Improve the Lives of its People, The Daily Walk with Miracles, May 8, 2013, by Paul Evans. In this case, the charity has been around for a long time, and is run under the auspices of the Catholic Church. Moreover, it is a privately owned charity. I have known the owner personally for almost a year now, and I can vouch for her honor as well as the passionate way she pursues finding help and sustenance for “our children.”

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Currently 150 children aged 2 to 12 are cared for by our staff of 20 adults. The Catholic Church runs the day to day operations here. We provide the children with food, clothing, counselling and faith, to provide a path to a better life. Besides the physical needs of the children, we attempt to provide values, ideals and behaviors that ensure Nigeria’s future is better than our past.

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Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on state television today that the reform-minded, moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani has won the presidential election.

Hassan, 64, is a foreign policy expert who has been a nuclear negotiator for the country. He was one of six candidates who had the state’s permission to run, based upon loyalty to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Rowhani was the only candidate who is a cleric, and is a Shiite. The two main conservative candidates, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is the mayor of Tehran, and hard line nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, came in a distant second and third.

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Rowhani captured 50.7 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff election. Ghalibaf gathered only about 17 percent of the vote, while Jalili got only 11 percent, splitting the conservative vote. The election is considered a widespread repudiation of current president Ahmadinejad and the conservative leadership of Iran. Rowhani has pledged to bridge the divide between the moderates and conservatives in Iran. His election is the best hope for the prospects of Middle East peace in many years.

Iran’s long-time President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been a bitter foe of Israel and problem for the West since 2005. Ahmadinejad is due to step down as Iran’s president on August 3 of this year. His extreme hard line stances on Iran’s nuclear ambitions and Israel have led to the brink of war, and the possibility of a war that would engulf the Middle East. Israel, in particular, has been at the point of bombing at least the air defenses and nuclear sites in Iran in the last few years. Severe sanctions against Iran by the U.S. and the European Union cut Iran’s oil revenue and placed large difficulties on its citizens, with shortages of consumer goods and even gasoline.

Cities such as the capital Tehran erupted in celebration upon hearing the news. Moderates, and the conservative forces whose main strength lay with voters in the countryside, came to the brink of civil war in recent years, but the supreme leader Khamenei exercised rigid control of the country and put down the unrest from moderates. The Huffington Post notes that there was no move by authorities to halt the widespread street celebrations and that authorities in Tehran seem to accept the result of the election.

While Hassan Rowhani, who is certainly reform-minded, and considered moderate, campaigned on better relations with the West, he has been deep in the foreign policy machinations and difficulties of Iran for many years. Wikipeida states that Rowhani:

has been a member of the Assembly of Experts since 1999, member of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Expediency Council since 1991, member of the Supreme National Security Council since 1989, and head of the Center for Strategic Research since 1992.

Rouhani has been also deputy speaker of the 4th and 5th terms of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) and secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005. In this capacity, he was also heading Iran’s former nuclear negotiating team and was the country’s top negotiator with the EU three – UK, France, and Germany – on the Iran’s nuclear program.

72 percent of Iran’s 50 million registered voters cast their ballots after the authorities there made a push for strong voter participation in the election. As late as last week, Iran’s conservative candidates, especially Ghalibaf, had been widely viewed as more likely to win the election than Rowhani.

Iran had imposed a strict media blackout of foreign press sources ahead of the election.

Perhaps Iran’s main foreign policy ally, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has has in recent days come out strongly against Iran’s threats to Israel, while still being supportive of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. The surprising margin of victory for Rowhani has given moderate Iranian citizens great hope for the future as well as the prospects of reconciliation with the West.

May God Bless the new president of Iran and guide him in his own strong Islamic faith towards peace and the betterment of all Iranians.

White House urges Iran: ‘Heed the will of the people’ after election, June 15, 2013, by Reuters:

Iran’s president runs the economy and wields important influence in day-to-day decision-making, although Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has the final say on major issues including national security and Iran’s nuclear program.

See Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani wins Iran’s presidential vote, The Washington Post, June 15, 2013, by Jason Rezaian.

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The Daily Walk with Miracles, from What We Need Now: A National Economic Strategy For Better Jobs, Robert Reich.org, June 11, 2013, by Robert Reich, used with permission, quoted verbatim. Photo courtesy of Gary Dee and Flickr:

Jobs are returning with depressing slowness, and most of the new jobs pay less than the jobs that were lost in the Great Recession.

Economic determinists — fatalists, really — assume that globalization and technological change must now condemn a large portion of the American workforce to under-unemployment and stagnant wages, while rewarding those with the best eductions and connections with ever higher wages and wealth. And therefore that the only way to get good jobs back and avoid widening inequality is to withdraw from the global economy and become neo-Luddites, destroying the new labor-saving technologies.

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That’s dead wrong. Economic isolationism and neo-Ludditism would reduce everyone’s living standards. Most importantly, there are many ways to create good jobs and reduce inequality.

Other nations are doing it. Germany was generating higher real median wages until recently, before it was dragged down by austerity it imposed the European Union. Singapore and South Korea continue to do so. Chinese workers have been on a rapidly-rising tide of higher real wages for several decades. These nations are implementing national economic strategies to build good jobs and widespread prosperity. The United States is not.

Any why not? Both because we don’t have the political will to implement them, and we’re trapped in an ideological straightjacket that refuses to acknowledge the importance of such a strategy. The irony is we already have a national economic strategy but it’s been dictated largely by powerful global corporations and Wall Street. And, not surprisingly, rather than increase the jobs and wages of most Americans, that strategy has been increasing the global profits and stock prices of these giant corporations and Wall Street banks.

If we had a strategy designed to increase jobs and wages, what would it look like? For starters, it would focus on raising the productivity of all Americans through better education — including early-childhood education and near-free higher education. That would require a revolution in how we finance public education. It’s insane that half of K-12 budgets still come from local property taxes, for example, especially given that we’re segregating geographically by income. And it makes no sense to pay for the higher education of young people from middle and lower-income families through student debt; that’s resulted in a mountain of debt that can’t or won’t be paid off, and it assumes that higher education is a private investment rather than a public good.

It would also require greater accountability by all schools and universities for better outcomes — but not just better test results. The only sure thing standardized tests measure is the ability to take standardized tests. Yet the new economy demands problem-solving and original thinking, not standardized answers.


Better education would just be a start. We would also unionize low-wage service workers in order to give them bargaining power to get better wages. Such workers — mostly in big-box retailers, fast-food chains, hospitals, and hotel chains — aren’t exposed to global competition or endangered by labor-substituting technologies, yet their wages and working conditions are among the worst in the nation. And they represent among the fastest-growing of all job categories.

We would raise the minimum wage to half the median wage and expand the Earned Income Tax Credit. We’d also eliminate payroll taxes on the first $15,000 of income, making up the shortfall in Social Security by raising the cap on income subject to the payroll tax.

We’d also restructure the relationships between management and labor. We would require, for example, that companies give their workers shares of stock, and more voice in corporate decision making. And that companies spend at least 2% of their earnings upgrading the skills of their lower-wage workers.

We’d also condition government largesse to corporations on their agreement to help create more and better jobs. For example, we’d require that companies receiving government R&D funding do their R&D in the U.S.

We would prohibit companies from deducting the cost of executive compensation in excess of more than 100 times the median compensation of their employees or the employees of their contractors. And bar them from providing tax-free benefits to executives without providing such benefits to all their employees.

And we would turn the financial system back into a means for investing the nation’s savings rather than a casino for placing huge and risky bets that, when they go wrong, impose huge costs on everyone else.

There’s no magic bullet for regaining good jobs and no precise contours to what such a national economic strategy might be, but at the very least we should be having a robust discussion about it. Instead, economic determinists seem to have joined up with the free-market ideologues in preventing such a conversation from even beginning.

Paul Evans: UPDATE: Here’s strong evidence to the effect that Congress just doesn’t pass really good laws any longer (and that, as usual, Dr. Reich is a little optimistic that Congress would ever pass laws with good features such as Reich suggests): See Poll: Americans’ faith in Congress lower than all major institutions — ever, NBC News First Read, June 13, 2013, by Carrie Dann:

That means that – since Gallup started the poll in 1973 – no institution from a list of 16 has been trusted less than Congress is now, including: big business, the medical system, newspapers, television news, HMOs and banks.

The Gallup poll shows that just 10 percent of Americans say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in Congress, down three points from last year. That low level is relatively consistent between Democrats, Republicans and Independents.

As usual, the poll found that Americans have the most confidence in the U.S. military, at 76 percent.

Robert Reich was the nation’s 22nd Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton and is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations. In 2008, Time Magazine named him one of the Ten Most Successful Cabinet Members of the century. He has written eleven books, including “The Work of Nations,” which has been translated into 22 languages. His recent book is “Supercapitalism.” For Professor Reich’s book page for Supercaptialism at Amazon, go here. Reich’s newest book, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future has been released September 21, and is available for ordering at this link (Amazon.com). The above article is from Reich’s new blog, and can be viewed here.

His latest, “Beyond Outrage,” is now out in paperback. He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause.

Robert Reich’s commentaries are available for listening to at Publicradio.com. Watch the video Aftershock: The next economy and America’s future (about his new book). Thanks to Professor Reich for permission to publish his articles on an ongoing basis.

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