My blog,better-4-you, is presented to give a perspective of the alternative news for the day. Posts will be from many different sources-general news,health topics,Christianity,politics and so on.
I believe the name of the candidate that fills the majority of the answers in the following 10 questions (in no particular order of importance) deserves your vote.
Based upon the GOP candidates' character and track records:
Much has been written about the Arab Spring of 2011 and rightly so: no other event in world politics had such wide-ranging effects both in the region and far beyond.
The process that began in the waning days of 2010 has toppled regimes in four countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen), reinvigorated political Islam, intensified competition among regional powers both in terms of geopolitical ambitions and the Sunni-Shiite confrontation, and led to a reevaluation of NATO’s role in the world. Finally, it has again raised questions about democratization as a means of resolving problems and the meaning of democracy in the modern world.
In a leaked letter sent to Spain’s outgoing President, the US ambassador to the country warned that as punishment for not passing a SOPA-style file-sharing site blocking law, Spain risked being put on a United States trade blacklist . Inclusion would have left Spain open to a range of “retaliatory options” but already the US was working with the incoming government to reach its goals.
United States government interference in Spain’s intellectual property laws had long been suspected, but it was revelations from Wikileaks that finally confirmed the depth of its involvement.
The U.S. and Israel are conducting their largest-ever joint warfare exercises near Iran. And see this.
England is sending its most advanced ship – the HMS Daring – to the region.
Only days after finishing its last wargames in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has announced another set of wargames in February.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
"I’m growing weary of the recovery storyline. I don’t know about you, but I live in the real world. I live in an upper middle class neighborhood. I find out every week about neighbors losing their jobs. I’m sure there are others that I don’t know about. Over the holidays you hear stories of relatives struggling to get by. It seems like a friend or relative gets laid off every other week. Are these the stories you would hear if the economy was truly recovering? Would the number of people in the country on food stamps go up by 500,000 per month if the economy was really improving?
Sometimes you just have to use your common sense. Wages are stagnant, the savings rate is falling, consumer credit usage is soaring and employment growth sucks. Is this really a recipe for recovery?"
