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BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama inauguration | Text and video: Obama inaugural speech
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/obama_inauguration/7840646.stm

The full text of Barack Obama's speech on his inauguration as US president.
What Every European Startup Should Know: 10 Keys to Presenting Your Startup in the US
http://mashable.com/2008/12/02/presenting-your-startup-in-the-us/
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites - The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22530
An article by Mark Danner from The New York Review of Books, April 9, 2009
We think time and elections will cleanse our fallen world but they will not.
Mark Danner obtains Red Cross report on CIA Black Sites - US behavior toward detainees = "torture"
Mark Danner obtains confidential ICRC report on CIA torture.
the toread tag is becoming more aspirational all the time
Discover America Vacations, Hotels, Restaurants, Packages & More
http://www.discoveramerica.com/ca/
Informations about tourism on United States of America
THE OFFICIAL TRAVEL AND TOURISM WEBSITE OF THE UNITED STATES, discover all United States destinations and what there is to do there.
Federal IT Dashboard
http://it.usaspending.gov/
157 Investments Evaluated by Agency CIOs Arrow View detailed chart by agency Note: All descriptions, dates, and costs are as reported by agencies. Major investments (Investments Evaluated) represent only a portion of the agency's entire IT portfolio reported in Exhibit 53.
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The brutal truth about America’s healthcare - Americas, World - The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-brutal-truth-about-americarsquos-healthcare-1772580.html
pay close attention to the breakdown of services; note the money, resources, and suffering
In the week that Britain's National Health Service was held aloft by Republicans as an "evil and Orwellian" example of everything that is wrong with free healthcare, these extraordinary scenes in Inglewood, California yesterday provided a sobering reminder of exactly why President Barack Obama is trying to reform the US system. The LA Forum, the arena that once hosted sell-out Madonna concerts, has been transformed – for eight days only – into a vast field hospital. In America, the offer of free healthcare is so rare, that news of the magical medical kingdom spread rapidly and long lines of prospective patients snaked around the venue for the chance of getting everyday treatments that many British people take for granted.
They came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free and basic right and not an expensive luxury. Some of these Americans had walked miles simply to have their blood pressure checked, some had slept in their cars in the hope of getting an eye-test or a mammogram, others had brought their children for immunisations that could end up saving their life.
An extraordinary report from Guy Adams in Los Angeles at the music arena that has been turned into a makeshift medical centre
Dollar ReDe$ign: Michael Tyznik - Dollar ReDe$ign Project
http://richardsmith.posterous.com/dollar-redeign-michael-tyznik
A very well thought out take on redesigning US paper currency
Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll have a dictatorship soon in the US’ - Times Online
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece
Gore attacks edmund again
A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace.
to re-read
Will California become America's first failed state? | World news | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/california-failing-state-debt
California has the highest unemployment rate in the last 70 years
"Los Angeles, 2009: California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike."
Los Angeles, 2009: California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike. So what has gone so catastrophically wrong?
California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike. So what has gone so…
California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike. So what has gone so catastrophically wrong?
The Stimulus Plan: A Detailed List of Spending - ProPublica
http://www.propublica.org/special/the-stimulus-plan-a-detailed-list-of-spending
Read Entire Package Here
Provides a high level breakdown of how much money is allocated to each agency
Stimulus Spending Breakouts
see very bottom for foreclosure information
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Good #infographic explaining American politics: http://infobeautiful.s3.amazonaws.com/leftright_US_1416.gif – Chris Harrison (cdharrison) http://twitter.com/cdharrison/statuses/10324141855
Liberal vs. Conservative, Left vs. Right, Progressive vs. Traditional
Excellent infographic comparing the left-wing and right-wing government
Roaring 20s and Great Depression
http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/20sdep.html
Many Links
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http://i36.tinypic.com/2qs8m4z.jpg
Graphic comparisons of the US to other countries in the areas of life expectancy, education, etc.
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Obama inauguration | Text and video: Obama inaugural speech
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/obama_inauguration/7840646.stm
on this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord, on this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics
Obama speech. Use for Hopes and Dreams as well as writing to argue and persuade
Barack Obama has been sworn in as the 44th US president. Here is his inauguration speech in full.
The full text of Barack Obama's speech on his inauguration as US president.
America's Top 10 Road Trips
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-34348817
have been on four of these!
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A hidden world, growing beyond control | washingtonpost.com
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/
Questi sono alcuni dei risultati di un'inchiesta portata avanti per due anni dal Washington Post. Dice @riotta su twitter che non ci sono scoop, però.
Great piece of journalism from Washington Post: Top Secret America, A hidden world, growing beyond control. http://is.gd/dyx7L #Terrorism
Interesting.
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?hp
"The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like lithium — are so big and include so many minerals that are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could eventually be transformed into one of the most important mining centers in the world, the United States officials believe."
amazing how a team of Pentagon officials and American geologists found all these resources
RT @mikewhills @jonnyrichards Cud discovery of $1trn worth of minerals turn Afghanistan into 'Saudi Arabia of lithium' http://nyti.ms/bbGY05