[Havana,Cuba] U S President ,Visiting Havana, Condemns ‘Outrageous’ Brussels Attacks
President Barack Obama condemned the “outrageous” attacks today in Brussels that killed about 35 people, saying the United States would do everything in its power to hunt down those responsible.
Democrat President Barack Obama spoke today by phone with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel to offer his condolences on behalf of the American people following today’s horrific terrorist attacks in Brussels.
The President reaffirmed the steadfast support of the United States for Belgium, and offered any assistance necessary in investigating these attacks and bringing those responsible to justice.
The President reiterated that the United States stands together with the people of Belgium, as well as NATO and the European Union, and once again pledged the full cooperation and support of the United States in our shared commitment to defeat the scourge of terrorism.
“The thoughts and the prayers of the American people are with the people of Belgium and we stand in solidarity with them in condemning these outrageous attacks against innocent people,
A series of explosions ripped through Brussels airport and a metro train, killing around 35 people and injuring more than 200 in the latest attacks to rock Europe
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U S President,Visiting Havana,Condemns ‘Outrageous’ Brussels Attacks
US President Obama Makes Federal Fund Available For Texas Disaster
[Washington DC]President Barack Obama Inks Texas Disaster Declaration
The President Obama today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Texas and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area affected by severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding beginning on March 7, 2016, and continuing.
The President’s action makes federal funding available to affected individuals in the counties of Jasper+Newton+Orange.
Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.
Federal funding also is available to the state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work as a result of the severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding in the counties of Jasper, Newton, and Orange.
Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.
W. Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Kevin L. Hannes as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area.
FEMA said that damage surveys are continuing in other areas, and more counties and additional forms of assistance may be designated after the assessments are fully completed.
FEMA said that residents and business owners who sustained losses in the designated counties can begin applying for assistance tomorrow by registering online or by calling 1-800-621-FEMA (3362) or 1-800-462-7585 (TTY) for the hearing and speech impaired. The toll-free telephone numbers will operate from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. (local time) seven days a week until further notice.
Obama Proposes $10 Barrel Tax On Oil for Green Transportation Plan
[Washington,DC]Obama Proposes $10 Tax On Oil for Green Transportation Plan
US President Barack Obama has proposed a USD 10-a-barrel tax on crude oil to fund a new green transportation system, Criticizing,Republicans said it would raise energy prices and hurt poor Americans.
The White House said Obama’s budget to be sent to the Congress next week will lay out a bold new plan for building a 21st Century Clean Transportation System funded by a new fee paid by oil companies.
The President s plan would increase American investments in clean transportation infrastructure by roughly 50 percent while reforming the investments we already make to help reduce carbon pollution, cut oil consumption, and create new jobs.
The White House said travellers choose between walking, biking, driving, flying, and taking the train; and companies choose between trucks, barges, airplanes and rail lines.
The move was immediately opposed by the Republican leadership in the Congress.
“Once again, the president expects hardworking consumers to pay for his out of touch climate agenda.
A USD 10 tax for every barrel of oil produced would raise energy prices hurting poor Americans the most,” said Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Obama Govt Again Assures American Sikhs of Their Safety
[Washington,DC] Obama Govt Again Assures American Sikhs of Their Safety .President Obama’s Special Assistant Delivered This Assurance In a Sikh Gurudwara
The White House has assured American-Sikhs of their safety and security in view of the increasing threats and hate crimes against the community members in the recent past.
Melissa Rogers, Special Assistant to President and head of the Office of Faith Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships office of the White House, visited a Guru Gobind Singh Foundation (GGSF) Gurdwara in Maryland to deliver this message of reassurance from the President.
Asserting that the US Government’s stand with Sikhs in America, Rogers also expressed empathy with the Sikh community over the recent incidents of violence against Sikhs and a reported case of vandalism at Los Angeles Gurdwara
Rogers said.”We want you to know that we stand by you and we will continue to work until we stamp these incidents out. Like you we believe that attack on any faith is an attack is an attack on every faith,”
“It is essential that all faith communities here and all over the world stand against hate motivated violence. We will continue to stand with you and we will continue to work to ensure that security and your civil constitutional rights are protected,”
she added.
“Sikh community has shown tremendous resilience in face of challenges and I am confident that you will triumph and we will be there with you to triumph over the current challenges that we face together,”
She was presented with a ‘siropa’ and a book on the Sikh scriptures.
Obama Approached For Removal Of Restrictions on Sikhs in US Military
[Washington DC] President Obama Approached For Removal Of Restrictions on Sikhs in US Military
A prominent Sikh-American organisation has urged US President Barack Obama to allow Sikhs to serve in the American military “without restrictions”.
Obama in turn promised to look into the matter and agreed to follow up, according to the Sikh Council on Religion and Education.
The chairman of the council, Rajwant Singh, met Obama at the White House on Wednesday and pressed him to allow Sikhs in US Armed Forces without any restrictions.
Singh and his wife were invited to the White House Holiday reception hosted by the First Family.
Singh also pointed out to Obama that Canada has a turban wearing Sikh as its defence minister, which the President acknowledged.
Earlier this month, in a rare exception, an active-duty Gallant Sikh soldier in the US army was granted a temporary religious accommodation that allowed him to grow his beard and wear a turban.
Obama ,in Wake of California Shooting,Reiterates His Call for Gun Reforms
[Washington] President Barack Obama ,in Wake of California Shooting,Reiterates His Call for Gun Reforms
U S President Barack Obama has condemned the California shooting that killed 14 people and injured 17,
In the past few years the US has been experiencing a series of tragic mass shooting, the frequency of which has increased.
Obama said the current law which lets anyone buy gun off the shelf without any background check needs to change. The Republican controlled Congress has refused to change the law.
He reiterated his call to the lawmakers to come together “on a bipartisan basis” to make Americans safer.
In San Bernardino, California where the mass shooting took place, the police shot dead two suspects a man and a woman. Both were wearing combat-style clothing.
They were killed in a exchange of fire in a street lined with homes. A third suspect has been apprehended. The police has so far refused to define this specifically as terrorism, but have not fully ruled it out.
President Obama Gives Credit Of Safety To Police Officers
[Chicago]President Barack Obama Gives Credit Of Safety To Police Officers .
Chicago, like some other major US cities, is grappling with an alarming spike in violent crime.
In This City President Said to police chiefs that US safer because of your efforts.
Defended police officers who have come under scrutiny like never before, saying the men and women who risk their lives to provide security are wrongly “scapegoated” for failing to deal with broader problems that lead people to commit crimes.
Unemployment, poor education, inadequate drug treatment and lax gun laws are not the responsibility of police officers, Obama said in remarks to the International Association of Chief of Police, which held its annual meeting in the president’s Chicago hometown.
He blamed the news media’s tendency “to focus on the sensational” for helping to drive a wedge between police officers and a public they take an oath to protect and serve.
He called for rebuilding the trust that once existed between them.
Obama delivered his speech amid a roiling national debate about officers’ treatment of potential criminal suspects following the deaths of unarmed black men in New York, Missouri and elsewhere by police.
.President opened his remarks with a tribute to slain New York City police officer Randolph Holder as hundreds of officers streamed into his wake.
Holder, 33, died last week after being shot in the head by a man he and his partner were chasing. The officers had responded to a call of shots fired and a bicycle stolen at gunpoint.
A suspect is in custody on charges of murder and robbery in Holder’s killing.
As per White House Obama met with the families of law enforcement officers who were killed on the job,
He also met with relatives of victims of Chicago gun violence.
Source White House
President Obama Eager to Talk about Epidemic of Prescription Drug Abuse In USA
[Washington DC]President Obama Eager to Talk about Epidemic of Prescription Drug Abuse In USA
President Barack Obama Is Eager to Hear Suggestions On Drug Abuse So He Is Visiting to West Virginia to talk about the epidemic of prescription drug abuse in America .Sales of powerful painkillers have skyrocketed. In The States
Facts People Should Know about Prescription Drug Abuse are
Prescription drug abuse and heroin use have taken a heartbreaking toll on too many Americans and their families. Today
[1]West Virginia the state home to the highest rate of overdose deaths in the nation
[2]120 Americans die every day from drug overdoses – most involving legal prescription drugs. That’s more than from car crashes.
[3]In 2012, enough prescriptions were written to give every American adult a bottle of pills. :
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President Obama just Gave A Call To Unite Against Gun Culture
[WashingtonDC] President Obama just Gave A Call To Unite Against Gun Culture
Obama Today delivered a statement on today’s shooting in Oregon.
He said “We are the only advanced country in the world that sees these shootings every few months.”
There’s been another mass shooting in America — this time, in a community college in Oregon.
That means there are more American families — moms, dads, children — whose lives have been changed forever. That means there’s another community stunned with grief, and communities across the country forced to relieve their own anguish, and parents across the country who are scared because they know it might have been their families or their children.
Obama said “as I said just a few months ago, and I said a few months before that, and I said each time we see one of these mass shootings, our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It’s not enough. It does not capture the heartache and grief and anger that we should feel. And it does nothing to prevent this carnage from being inflicted someplace else in America — next week, or a couple of months from now. We don’t yet know why this individual did what he did. And it’s fair to say that anybody who does this has a sickness in their minds, regardless of what they think their motivations may be. But we are not the only country on Earth that has people with mental illnesses or want to do harm to other people. We are the only advanced country on Earth that sees these kinds of mass shootings every few months”
President Said “Earlier this year, I answered a question in an interview by saying, “The United States of America is the one advanced nation on Earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense gun-safety laws — even in the face of repeated mass killings.” And later that day, there was a mass shooting at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. That day! Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it. We’ve become numb to this”.
We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after Newtown, after Aurora, after Charleston. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun.
And what’s become routine, of course, is the response of those who oppose any kind of common-sense gun legislation. Right now, I can imagine the press releases being cranked out: We need more guns, they’ll argue. Fewer gun safety laws.
Does anybody really believe that? There are scores of responsible gun owners in this country –they know that’s not true. We know because of the polling that says the majority of Americans understand we should be changing these laws — including the majority of responsible, law-abiding gun owners.
President Reitereted
“And each time this happens I’m going to bring this up. Each time this happens I am going to say that we can actually do something about it, but we’re going to have to change our laws. And this is not something I can do by myself. I’ve got to have a Congress and I’ve got to have state legislatures and governors who are willing to work with me on this.
I hope and pray that I don’t have to come out again during my tenure as President to offer my condolences to families in these circumstances. But based on my experience as President, I can’t guarantee that. And that’s terrible to say. And it can change.
May God bless the memories of those who were killed today. May He bring comfort to their families, and courage to the injured as they fight their way back. And may He give us the strength to come together and find the courage to change.We have to come together and take steps to reduce gun violence”
President ObamaPaid Rich Tributes to Black Women Leaders Of 50 Yrs Ago
[Washington,DC]President Obama paid Rich Tribute to Black Women Leaders Of Half Century Ago
US President Barack Obama has paid tribute to black women for their role in helping shape American democracy, calling them “the thinkers and the doers” who made things happen at the height of the civil rights movement half a century ago.
Obama said black women did the behind-the-scenes work of strategizing boycotts and organising marches while others got thecredit. He said they have been part of every great movement in American history, and that every American has benefited as a result.
“Women were the foot soldiers. Women strategized boycotts.
Women organised marches,” Obama said in a keynote address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual awards dinner. “Even if they weren’t allowed to run the civil rights organisations on paper, behind the scenes they were the thinkers and the doers making things happen each and every day, doing the work that no one else wanted to do.”
He said.”Women made the movement happen,”
But Obama said that while black women and girls have made progress and are opening more of their own businesses and graduating from high school and college at higher rates, they are still overrepresented in low-paying jobs and underrepresented in management.
even invoked his wife, Michelle, as an example of the attitudes about black women that he said persist. The first lady, a lawyer with degrees from two Ivy League universities, has spoken on numerous occasions of being told by her teachers that she was setting her sights too high.
“Those stereotypes and pressures, they still affect our girls,” said Obama, the father of two teenage daughters. “So we all have to be louder than the voices that are telling our girls they’re not good enough, that they’ve got to act a certain way.”
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