SATURDAY: "No strategy Obama" with Jim Yardley.......Listen in now at http://t.co/OOKlpIZSmQ. #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 30, 2014
When President Obamasummoned his closest advisers to the Oval Office a year ago this week to tell them he was holding off on a missile strike against Syria, one of his arguments was that if he acted without Congress, he might not get congressional backing for military intervention the next time he needed it.Yes, it will be tricky to go to Congress. It should always be difficult to ask Congress to approve a war. It's very serious to send young men to war.
“He can’t make these decisions divorced from the American public and from Congress,” a senior aide said at the time. “Who knows what we’re going to face in the next three and a half years in the Middle East?”
Now, Mr. Obama knows what he is facing — rampaging Sunni militants who beheaded an American and have declared an Islamic caliphate across a swath of Iraq and Syria. But as the president considers airstrikes in Syria against the group, known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, seeking a congressional imprimatur remains a politically tricky undertaking.
"Get ready to pay more for health insurance next year, compliments of Obamacare.It's interesting but the critics of ObamaCare have turned out to be right:
A new analysis from PricewaterhouseCoopers projects that average premiums for policies sold through Obamacare’s exchanges will increase 7.5 percent in 2015.
In nearly one-third of the 29 states that PwC investigated, premiums will rise by double digits. In Indiana, the average increase will be 15.4 percent. In Kansas, it’s 13.6 percent. Florida’s insurance commissioner says premiums are set to climb 13.2 percent."
Wednesday: Gloria Strassburger and Fausta Rodriguez Wertz........Listen in now at http://t.co/Zz7Bw8YlQC. #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 27, 2014
"Barack Obama has paved the way for airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria after spy planes started operating in the country on his command, according to U.S officials.So President Obama is ready for an escalation? Wouldn't it be nice if President Obama told the American people his plans?
While the White House says military action inside Syria has not yet been approved, additional intelligence on the militants is considered vital before any move can be made - especially in the northern city of Raqqa, which ISIS has named the capital of its self-declared caliphate.
The move comes despite warnings from Syria's embattled president Bashar Assad that any airstrike in the country not given his express permission would be considered an act of aggression.
Obama has so far sought a limited military campaign in neighbouring Iraq focused on protecting American diplomats and Iraqi civilians under direct threat from the brutal Islamist militant group.
But officials have not ruled out escalating military action against ISIS, which has increased its overt threats against the United States in recent weeks."
TUESDAY: THE TEXAS RANGERS & DFW SPORTS WITH DAVID BUSBY AND CARLOS TORRES......Listen in now at http://t.co/5n2kWOyPQQ #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 27, 2014
"The museum would include witness testimony, artifacts, and interactive exhibits registering the toll communism has wrought in some 40 countries throughout history.Of course, no one needs to tell me about the evils of communism. It is something that I saw with my young eyes and heard from my parents' stories of how communism was imposed on the Cuban people. I also read of the gulags, the Cambodian Killing Fields and Mao’s famine.
Such an institution would join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in teaching future generations about man’s capacity for inhumanity. "
"Like a man in a swimming pool who belatedly realizes that he can’t swim, his first step must be to extend his foot to see if he can reach bottom. If not, then where is the nearest gutter? The problem is the floundering man in the pool had introduced himself as the next Michael Phelps. Now he has to save himself without letting on."The other "unknown" is starting a war that could very well consume the remaining 30 months of his presidency. I'm sure that he's read about LBJ and Vietnam in 1967-68, how it divided the party and handed the presidency to Nixon.
SUNDAY: THE WEEK WITH MELANIE STURM & BILL KATZ.......Listen in now at http://t.co/ZvZQgd39d5. #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 25, 2014
"President Obama has few remaining friends—either in his own party or in the media.
That’s the unmistakable conclusion of two pieces this week in the New York Times. Just about everyone, it seems, is down on his single, solitary nature.
I’ve been saying for a year now that the president’s liberal media allies have soured on him. It started with the ObamaCare debacle and continued through his seeming passivity or slow reaction time in the wake of the VA scandal, the Bowe Bergdahl mess, the military collapse in Iraq and so on. At this point they’re basically Waiting for Hillary.
What is striking now is a growing sense, fairly or unfairly, that Obama is not capable of rising to the occasion, that he just doesn’t like politics, that he’s disengaged, that despite his soaring rhetoric in 2008 he has a passion deficit.
All the criticism about him playing golf and being at Martha’s Vineyard is kind of a code for his supposedly being unplugged from the job."
SATURDAY: Iraq, ISIS in the US and other issues with Jim Yardley.......Listen in now at http://t.co/bpeLGiSvuD. #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 23, 2014
“The U.S., however, is already doing more than containing the Islamic State. Washington has now dispatched warplanes to aggressively push back the Islamic State, and the pretense of doing anything less should end.But so should the illusion about what it will take to achieve that goal. The Operation Without a Name should not be an operation without a well-defined mission ��” or without a “winning” exit strategy.Given the human heartache and political headache from the last Iraq intervention, not to mention the mess left behind, Washington needs to be honest upfront in answering basic questions.”
THURSDAY: IRAQ, SYRIA AND OTHER NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES.....Listen in now at http://t.co/71kWnNzVHk. #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 22, 2014
WEDNESDAY: US-LATIN AMERICA ISSUES OF THE WEEK........Listen in now at http://t.co/19f9jeZGO4. #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 20, 2014
“On April 30th, President Enrique Peña Nieto had submitted the proposed reforms to the Mexican Congress. The package was eventually passed by both houses of Congress, and sent back to the President on August 6th.So on August 11th, 2014, President Peña Nieto signed the 21-part reform. “This is the moment to put the energy reform into action,“ he announced when signing.The signing ceremony was held at the Palacio Nacional, Mexico’s ceremonial capitol building, where President Lazaro Cardenas had signed the decree establishing PEMEX back in 1938.This is a major reform, opening up Mexico’s energy sector to investment by private, even foreign companies, which can bid for the rights to drill in specific fields and share in the profits. In the past companies could only be subcontracted.The reform also allows the private production of electricity.And it involves a lot of legal structure to make it function, including regulatory and oversight agencies. The goal is to make Mexico’s oil industry more transparent, which is important to investors.Mexico’s state oil company PEMEX (Petróleos Mexicanos) still exists, but the reforms are intended to make it more autonomous and more competitive. ”
TUESDAY: OIL & PEMEX REFORMS IN MEXICO WITH ALLAN WALL.....Listen in now at http://t.co/gdMEtbTjf8. #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 20, 2014
In yet another aggressive move against private enterprise, Argentinean officials introduced a new bill to the Senate on August 5: the New Regulation of Production and Consumption Relations.This legislation aims to replace the current governing Law of Supply by establishing limits on prices, production levels, and profit margins, and has already received harshcriticism from certain industries.The Kirchner administration’s goal with this proposal is to “prevent abuse and the misappropriation of the value-chain surplus.”The existing law has been in place since the military dictatorship of 1974, which established prison sentences for business owners convicted of “induced shortages.” The principal difference with the government’s new proposal is that it provides further state control over the market in the form of price controls. Once signed into law, it will legally codify the government’s current agreement with suppliers and distributors of products subject to the Careful Prices program.“It is essential to observe the behavior of the price system and the extent to which economic concentration allows certain economic groups to abuse their dominant position,” reads the proposal.In addition, the bill further defines the state’s role in “defending the interests of consumers in order to make the price and quality of services consistent with offers proposed by companies.”
SUNDAY: THE WEEK IN REVIEW WITH BILL KATZ OF URGENT AGENDA.....Listen now at http://t.co/qzppMIOwKG. #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 17, 2014
“Ferguson was hardly a happy suburban garden spot until the shooting of Michael Brown. Ferguson is about two-thirds black, and 28 percent of those black residents live below the poverty line. The median income is well below the Missouri average, and Missouri is hardly the nation’s runaway leader in economic matters. More than 60 percent of the births in the city of St. Louis (and about 40 percent in St. Louis County) are out of wedlock.”
“The Reverend Jackson should not be surprised that places such as Ferguson, Mo., have feckless police departments. He himself has spent his career helping to ensure that they have feckless schools, self-serving bureaucracies, rapacious public-sector unions pillaging the municipal fisc, and malevolent political leadership that is by no means above exploiting racial sentiment in order to hold on to power. His allies have been running U.S. cities for a generation, and it takes a considerable measure of brass for him to come in decrying the results as though he had no hand in them.”
Ferguson story, Pedro Pan kids, Elvis & Babe Ruth with Jim Yardley....Listen in now at http://t.co/Q04yEFTkBW #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 16, 2014
FRIDAY: "Cuba adios", a book by Lorenzo Martinez, his journey to the US......Listen in now at http://t.co/Jq7CA5Ipz3. #BlogTalkRadio
— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) August 15, 2014
“Appearing before reporters at a school in Martha’s Vineyard, where he has been vacationing, Obama sought to strike a balance to calm tensions in the St. Louis suburb, while also promising a thorough investigation into the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown last Saturday.“Now is the time for healing,” said Obama, dressed in a navy blazer and checkered dress shirt without a tie. “Now is the time for peace and calm on the streets of Ferguson. Now is the time for an open and transparent process to see that justice is done.” His remarks came after another night of violence in the Ferguson community Wednesday. Police fired tear gas at protesters and two reporters, including one from The Washington Post, were arrested while covering the events.”