“The American Republican party is the only major party that I can think of in the advanced world that effectively denies climate change”, he said on Friday (local time).
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“We’re going to defeat ISIS and we’re going to do so by systematically squeezing them, cutting off their supply lines, cutting off their financing, taking out their leadership, taking out their forces, taking out their infrastructure”, Obama said at a news conference, using an acronym for the Islamist group. He also will spend time on the presidential campaign trail stumping for the Democratic nominee.
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Wearing handcuffs and beige T-shirt, Marquez appeared in federal court in Riverside, California for a brief hearing on Thursday. Apparently it was a marriage of convenience , and a sham in order to get the woman in question American citizenship.
Obama said he did not feel the transportation bill is as robust as it needs to be.
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Two drug offenders from Louisiana are among the 95 whose prison sentences have been commuted by President Barack Obama. “Even the far right parties in many of these countries, they may not like immigrants for example, but yeah they admit, yeah, the science tells us we have to do something about climate change”.
Cooks was sentenced to life in prison in 1994 for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and three counts of distribution of cocaine.
He commended Ryan and all lawmakers involved in getting the omnibus spending bill through Congress. He specifically hailed the “terrific negotiations” by Democrats that kept ideological amendments out of the spending bill, as well as the fact that the bill eases up on Congress’ arbitrary “sequester” budget cuts. Obama pointed to record job growth, a lower unemployment rate and an increase in wages.
“It is very hard for us to detract lone wolf plots, or plots involving a husband and wife”, he said, referring to the shooting rampage in California by a radicalized Muslim couple that killed 14 people.
Obama portrayed 2015 as one of significant progress for his agenda, pointing to diplomacy with Iran and Cuba and an Asia-Pacific trade agreement as big wins for his administration.
Most of Friday’s commutations went to nonviolent drug offenders who have been imprisoned for more than a decade and would have been sentenced to less time under current rules.
The president also spoke at length about the fight against terrorism, at home and overseas. “No government is going to have the capacity to read every single person’s texts or social media”, he said. However, as CBS reported, the shooter had shared private messages over Facebook of that nature.
Obama also touched on the growing debate over federal surveillance of social media, including Facebook and Twitter. “Our law enforcement and intelligence professionals are constantly monitoring public posts, and that is part of the visa review process…”
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“Here, essentially, you have ISIL trying to encourage or induce somebody who may be prey to this kind of propaganda, and it becomes more hard to see”. “Over the years, they have taken countless terrorists off the battlefield”. He thanked US troops, and especially those deployed. Before arriving in Honolulu, the first family will stop in San Bernardino, California, to visit with families of victims of the fatal December 2 attack there.
