Newsletter # 7

2011_12_06 Newsletter # 7

Here’s an item hot off the press: a nine year old boy was suspended from class for calling his teacher “cute” which was classed as sexual harassment. The incident gets my vote for being the most ridiculous example of such a charge.

Putin has returned to being the president of Russian, but the opposition is calling the election rigged. He’s clearly not as popular as he was the first time around when the vote was 64% for his party, UNITED RUSSIA; this time it was 49%, a squeaker, as three other parties were in contention. He has been PM for the last four years. It’s a game of musical chairs with Putin. Whatever he’s called he’s the Big Cheese.

Turkey, once so eager to get in the EURO ZONE (the United States of Europe, with the Euro being equivalent to our dollar), to be the first Islamic nation in the Euro Zone, has now backed off from joining the party, considering Europe’s debt crisis and collapsing economies. Turkey has become a regional power with its stable society and economy. The PM of Turkey was the first to condemn Assad of Syria brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors and to initiate heavy sanctions on Syria. Since then the Arab League has followed suit.

It has recently becomes public information that six of the biggest banks in the United States were getting secret loans from the Fed, cash infusions when the recession hit in 2008, loans that added up to half a trillion dollars. The Fed did not report what they were doing, as they should, by law. It is more evidence that the 1% takes care of the survival of their own class and doesn’t give a damn about the 99%. The S.E.C. (Security Exchange Commission) may have slap a wrist but let a real crime go by.

Newt Gingrich has forged ahead with Herman Cain falling out of contention because of sexual hi jinxes and gaffes about policies. The Iowa caucus is in one month and Gingrich has the lead. The race for the Republicans has boiled down to Gingrich and Romney, which means the candidate, who ever it is, will be a deeply flawed candidate. The Democrats hope it’ll be Newt rather than Mitt. Newt has more baggage (three marriages, divorced his first wife when she was sick with cancer, criticized Bill Clinton for an affair when he was having one at the same time, shut down the government in 1994, and there will be other things.) Mitt limitations are obvious: he’s a robot, wears too much hair gel, and Obamacare was modeled on Romneycare in Massachusetts. He has more of an organization behind him and his baggage is less offensive then Gingrich’s. Many think he could beat Obama. Hence, The Demos want Newt.