I would rather have Obama in charge of the UK than Gordon Brown. Obama is obviously nowhere near as frightened of the city fat-cats as Brown, and is thus more in tune with the feelings of the majority in this Great Debt Swindle (I swear Malcolm McLaren has a hand in all of this-seems right up his street). Obama also appears to be a man with an awareness of the fragility of the environment. He seems like he has ideas. None of that can be said about his British counterpart.

I think that the USA could [...]

Read the full comment have done a lot worse than Obama. In my book, he is one of the few rays of hope in the west. He is obviously an intelligent man who isn't scared of making big decisions. He isn't scared of Wall Street and its Jewish junta. Taking over after the Bush demolition squad was never going to be easy and the only thing going against Obama is the 8 years maximum he will have as Pres: it is going to take longer than that to rebuild and redirect the USA. It's down to the American public to be patient and weather the storm. Yes, it can be done.

As our Prime Minister Harper said there is no better friend, ally and partner for the USA than Canada. Canadians are excited about Obama honouring us with his first official state visit, crossing the world's longest undefended border to visit Ottawa and the land of the true north strong and free. We are also the largest oil and energy supplier to the USA and most important of all, we share one of the worlds largest and most comprehensive trading relationships - which supports millions of jobs in each country. Obama is hugely popular in Canada and we look forward to [...]

Read the full comment helping him as a friend and ally to acheive the goals of his administration. Canadian banks not as effected by the housing crisis can offer plans and help to US economists and bankers. Lets roll up our sleeves and get to work to make things better in North America.

Having visited the old Soviet Union I can state quite categorically that I am not a communist, where all production and services are controlled by the state, which is in fact the KGB or some such nasty elite, one party system.

Capitalism is good in may respects. It allows investment in new ideas and technological progress, but left to its own devices concentrates wealth and power in far too few hands, who then control the media propaganda machine, corrupt our politick and create self serving monopolies. In other words fascism, which is where Bush and Cheney [...]

Read the full comment were trying to lead us. It also ends as a nasty dictatorship as in NAZI Germany. (Please don't tell me Hitler was a socialist either)

However, capitalism has to be reigned in to counter its excesses by sharing the wealth more equitably. This is a more sustainable way of doing things than boom and bust making most peoples' lives a misery in order for a handful of billionaires and their lackeys to rule the world to the detriment of everyone else.

Failed banks should be allowed file for bankruptcy. The only bank we need to nationalize is the Federal Reserve, so that money creation and interest accrues to the US Treasury and the benefit of all Americans and not just the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds.

We should also reduce the Pentagon budget by at least half and devote the funds to more useful infrastructure projects, which will create jobs with a useful end product rather than cluster bombs and killing people.

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The people have never been convinced they were simply bored and indifferent. It is this which is changing, and changing rapidly.

And then there is the likelihood that the pace will be set in Asia where the numbers and the plight of those affected are both more dramatic.

The news is going to be filled with reports of unrest, strikes, riots and revolutions.

The US ruling class is going to rue the day it schooled thousands of people in insurrectionary tactics. The Capitalists will see that globalisation has [...]

Read the full comment another side; in a world without barriers, fires spread rapidly and run out of control.

It was the Mandarins, not the poor peasantry, who feared living in "interesting times." ;)

It's amusing to see mean conservatives like Keith W Brown who should be hanging their heads in shame, try to be a legitimate opposition to President Obama's Administration.
The American people with an overwhelming majority voted out the disfunctional, trickle down policies of the past eight years.
I for one support President BHO in his whole-hearted effort to correct the travesties of the past 8 years.
It takes time to accomplish goals such as this.
Conservatives like Keith W Brown may have to get in line to (illegally) enter places like Bulgaria, [...]

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You're jumping the gun just a bit don't you think?