I will never forget the commitment to reconciliation and peace that I encountered in Hiroshima in 2016. The memory… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 06, 2020Posts Tagged ‘bomb
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President Barack Obama delivers a speech at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park cenotaph in Hiroshima
President Barack Obama speaks with 91-year-old Sunao Tsuboi, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe listens during a visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
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"We are not bound ... to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn. We can choose." —@POTUS speaks at Hiroshima. snpy.tv/1TMHmsa
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 27, 2016****
President Barack Obama embraces atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori
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Japanese and foreign Journalists watch President Barack Obama’s live address from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
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Huge line of Japanese right now at Hiroshima memorial, waiting to take photos with the wreath Obama laid https://t.co/4njCgQ21th
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Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) May 27, 2016****
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What A World We Live In
BREAKING NEWS: FBI confirms a bomb exploded outside NAACP building in Colorado Springs earlier today. Suspect at large. ATF investigating.
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Breaking News Feed (@PzFeed) January 07, 2015Shoot a cop, all black people in America are suspect. Bomb an NAACP office, probably just a lone nutcase. latimes.com/nation/nationn…
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Zandar (@ZandarVTS) January 07, 2015****
NAACP statement on bombing: http://t.co/iXPZeDuj21
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Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) January 07, 2015Some white people are saying that if you stop talking about racism, racism will go away. Meanwhile, a bomb exploded outside an NAACP office.
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Cop gets shot and America grinds to a halt with 24/7 coverage.
NAACP office in Colorado gets bombed in 2015, and the media stays silent.
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Nerdy Wonka (@NerdyWonka) January 07, 2015@NerdyWonka Wtf I haven't seen anything about bombing Damn
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Jen316 (@jenmisstx) January 07, 2015****
@NerdyWonka wow. I must say, I haven't heard anything about the Colorado bombing.
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Brannon (@Brannona) January 07, 2015@Karnythia @kennedy57 MSM is mute on this. Why...?!
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Sara Tonin, RN MSN (@shar76) January 07, 2015****
Well, if this is true and the bomber is in fact white, and not black or Muslim, watch the media lose interest fast. http://t.co/HOS9fmQl4N
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) January 07, 2015There's been a bombing outside an #NAACP chapter. Because of course that's what happens in post-racial America.
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Liberal Librarian (@Lib_Librarian) January 06, 2015****
Another shooting in America, #NAACP bombing and #3 Republican in the House is a Grand KKK member. All is well.
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Jeff Gauvin (@JeffersonObama) January 06, 2015UPDATE: Officials seeking "potential person of interest" in explosion near #ColoradoSprings NAACP dpo.st/1wSN2AM
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The Denver Post (@denverpost) January 06, 2015****
FBI Seeks Man After Explosion Near Colorado Springs NAACP abcn.ws/1BIlDGq An IED next to a gas can. Will they call it terrorism?
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) January 07, 2015@Karnythia not if he's white.
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Spamuel L. Jackson (@steenfox) January 07, 2015****
@Karnythia @_beyunique of course they wont. he'll be "disturbed" & "misunderstood"
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Patrick J. #Broncos (@PatNasty24) January 07, 2015Right now, FOX NEWS is too busy telling their viewers about liberal media bias to cover the explosion outside a Colorado NAACP headquarters.
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@washingtonpost how about some equal coverage of the terrorist attack on the Co Springs NAACP? #smh
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Kalli Miner (@KalliMooner) January 07, 2015Bomb in front of the NAACP and @CNN needs to prattle on about their 24/7 plane crash fetish.
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Shannon (@ShannonInVegas) January 07, 2015****
Why isn't the IED bombing of an NAACP office NOT BREAKING NEWS? .@cnn @msnbc @hardball @foxnews @outfrontcnn #BlackLivesMatter #p2
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VK (@craftyme25) January 07, 2015There was a domestic terrorist attack today but nobody cares. denverpost.com/news/ci_272675…
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Joe Dunman (@JoeDunman) January 07, 201528
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12
Money bomb!
A million thanks to the mighty DonnaDem for gathering links to your Obama/Biden 2012 fundraisers. If anyone is missing from the list just let me know and I’ll add your link:
a4alice * Alycee * BWD * CollegeKay * Cookemom * DonnaDem4Obama
Hgerhard * HZ * Judith Fardig * Mae Who Love Our CIC
Marlz * Meta * Pamela *prettyfoot58 * proudmemberofglobalzero * Theo67 * The Obama Diary
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I have the names in alphabetical order, so no bias here …. I really should have called it ‘A Obama Diary’ 😕
Actually – and I’m being completely serious – I’d way prefer if you could donate to any of the other fundraisers, especially the newer ones, mine is permanently linked here in a shamelessly self-promoting kind of way.
You know what I always say: I honestly, honestly, honestly hate bugging people for money, because I know so many of you are going through tough times, especially those of you with kids, mortgages, elderly relatives you’re caring for or who are suffering from ill health. Some of you have shared your stories with me, you’re amazing people, you just selflessly battle away and do everything you can for Obama/Biden 2012 by volunteering, etc. You’re all inspirational.
So, I’m only asking those who can afford to donate to do so before that June 30 deadline – a gazillion thanks in advance, let’s get this fella re-elected.
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11
he’s soft on ‘terror’, you know
MSNBC: Senior al-Qaida operative Ilyas Kashmiri, regarded as one of the world’s most dangerous militants, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike, Pakistani intelligence officials and a militant group confirmed Saturday.
A fax from Kashmiri’s Harakat-ul-Jihad al-Islami militant group said Saturday that Kashmiri was “martyred” in the strike at 11:15 p.m. Friday in South Waziristan. It vowed revenge against America.
The Pakistani official also said Saturday that Kashmiri was among nine militants killed in the strike … Kashmiri is one of five most-wanted militant leaders in Pakistan and his apparent death is another blow to al-Qaida just over a month after Osama bin Laden was killed.
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BBC: ….According to a recent Associated Press report, his name figured among the top five al-Qaeda and Taliban militants US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mentioned during her meetings with the Pakistani leadership a week ago.
He was one of the most active al-Qaeda leaders, and was believed to have had a role in some high-profile attacks against Pakistani and US interests in Pakistan. It is believed that the capabilities of his 313 Brigade will suffer a setback now that he is gone.
What is more, the Pakistani government has admitted to agreeing to set up joint intelligence teams with the Americans to hunt down wanted militant leaders, and many would be led to believe the Pakistani intelligence operatives had a role in leading the Americans to Kashmiri, unless the Pakistanis or the Americans claim otherwise.
More here
Thank you cat48 for passing on this GREAT news
‘Quietly Executing A National Security Triumph’
Washington Monthly – One of the year’s biggest national security developments actually gets overlooked. In April, at the kickoff of the Nuclear Security Summit, the Obama administration reached an agreement with the Ukrainian government on the country giving up its entire stockpile of highly enriched uranium, inherited after the fall of the Soviet Union.
For those concerned about the security of the most dangerous material on the planet, this was quite a breakthrough. What we didn’t know until last night is that the process of moving more than 110 pounds of highly enriched uranium — enough to make two nuclear bombs — was quietly completed this week.
….The result, of course, is a safer world.
…President Obama established a goal early on of securing all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years — a task that encompasses locking down materials in 35 countries. Less than two years later, the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has completed its work in 19 of those countries, and D’Agostino believes the agency is on track to meet the White House’s deadline.
The political world covers quite a bit of ground, but arguably nothing is quite as important to global security as this. The developments in Ukraine are a triumph to be celebrated.
December 31, 2010 – Statement by President Barack Obama on Removal of HEU from Ukraine: “I congratulate President Yanukovych on the recent shipment of highly enriched uranium from Ukraine for secure disposal in Russia, which advances a top priority for my administration and for global security. This action brings us all one step closer to securing all vulnerable nuclear materials, as President Yanukovych and I and 45 other world leaders pledged to do this April at the Nuclear Security Summit. The low enriched uranium and nuclear safety equipment provided to Ukraine in connection with this shipment will support Ukraine’s development of safe and secure nuclear energy. These actions represent continued Ukrainian leadership in making sure that nuclear weapons never fall into the hands of a terrorist, and working toward a world without nuclear weapons.”
MSNBC: The United States has helped Ukraine send two atomic bombs’ worth of weapons grade uranium to Russia during a secret operation over the holidays, the Obama administration confirmed Thursday on msnbc’s The Rachel Maddow Show.
The removal of more than 111 pounds of highly enriched uranium followed a pledge by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to get rid of all of his country’s highly enriched uranium by April 2012 ….The material will be blended down in Russia, rendering it useless for bomb making.
Yanukovych agreed to give up the uranium in a multinational deal announced at a nuclear security summit hosted by President Barack Obama in April.
Shipments like the one recently completed from Serbia result in permanent threat reduction because they eliminate weapons-usable nuclear material at civilian sites…. as an incentive, the United States is providing replacement low-enriched uranium that can be used for Ukraine’s research reactors.
…The removal operation involved 21 specially designed casks for the uranium to be flown on five flights from three cities … the U.S. also helped deliver some of the replacement fuel to Ukraine.
Read the full article here
Interesting article from the NYT last year – ‘Obama’s Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision’
In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus news magazine, Sundial, about the vision of “a nuclear free world”. He railed against discussions of “first- versus second-strike capabilities” that “suit the military-industrial interests” with their “billion-dollar erector sets,” and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.
The student was Barack Obama….
…Twenty-six years later, the author, in his new job as president of the United States, has begun pushing for new global rules, treaties and alliances that he insists can establish a nuclear-free world … no previous American president has set out a step-by-step agenda for the eventual elimination of nuclear arms.
…When he became a senator in January 2005, Mr. Obama zeroed in on arms control, an issue with little traction in the Republican-controlled Senate … he found a mentor in Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a longtime star of nuclear nonproliferation efforts. Later that year, Mr. Obama asked to accompany his Republican colleague on a trip to monitor Russian efforts to scrap nuclear arms and secure atomic materials from theft or diversion.
“When we got there, he was clearly all business — a very careful listener and note taker and a serious student,” Mr. Lugar recalled.
…“I don’t think I was that unique at that time,” the president said of his Columbia days, “and I don’t think I’m that unique today in thinking that if we could put the genie back in the bottle, in some sense, that there would be less danger — not just to the United States but to people around the world.”
Full article here
Thank you hgerhard for this comment and link to Global Zero:
As a long-time advocate of a “world without nuclear weapons”, I am delighted to find out about this latest action. I am so proud of our President. I remember his speech in Berlin when he first mentioned the importance of nuclear disarmament and securing all loose nuclear materials within a period of four years. Then again in Prague, he reiterated this goal and ever since becoming President, he has worked tirelessly to bring this issue to the U.N. Security Council and start negotiations with Russia and other nations. The new START Treaty is one major result of these efforts; the removal of enriched plutonium from many countries does not get the notice this important issue deserves. To bring about a “world without nuclear weapons” and eliminating materials that can be used to make new ones is the greatest gift we can pass on to our children and grandchildren. History will record that President Obama was the most instrumental leader in moving this goal closer to reality.
For more information about the world-wide movement to achieve this goal, please go to www.globalzero.org
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