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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

First Lady campaigns for her husband's re-election when the Democratic National Convention, it is up to Mrs. Obama


Barack Obama's election is critically dependent on his wife Michelle.How well they can convince Americans of the merits of her husband?After some initial difficulties she now has a significant presence. In the past week, Ann Romney assured the people of the United States on the Republican convention that her husband Mitt was a likeable family man and loving husband, whom she could in good conscience vote in November as president.In the "Convention" Michelle Obama is the Democrats on Tuesday faced a similar task.Unlike Ann Romney, the 48-year old is a real career woman.The first African-American First Lady is popular among the people as President Barack Obama - with her ​​popularity she can help her husband's re-election.On Wednesday, the incumbent is formally as a candidate for the election on 6Nominated November.Its much-anticipated inaugural speech is scheduled to conclude on Thursday.The party program of the Democrats lists speeches, among other high-profile politicians and celebrities.On Tuesday (Wednesday night to German time) include planned a video sharing of ex-President Jimmy Carter and the appearance, of the hope for the Democrats a good tail wind: First Lady Michelle Obama speaks.


Diligence, intelligence, determination

She has a life story as the Americans do.In simple circumstances, she grew up in a problem neighborhood of Chicago - and succeeded with hard work, intelligence and determination to climb on their own.She studied sociology and law at the elite universities Princeton and Harvard, then it was still called Michelle Robinson.The wives of the U.S. presidential candidates in election campaigns play a highly political role."The Americans believe that these women can put a testimony about her husband," said Catherine Allgor, professor of history at the University of California and author of a book on the wives of U.S. presidents.From the way the candidate behaves in family life, they draw conclusions about his character as a potential president.

Michelle: 19 percent more than Barack Obama

At the end of Obama's first term, Michelle Obama seems to have arrived in the role of First Lady.In recent years she was involved in military families and to fight obesity.The First Lady presented in spring 2009 at a 100-square-foot vegetable garden in the White House.Since then she regularly invites students to increase the eco-garden with new plants.About a year later, Michelle Obama launched her campaign "Let's Move", under which it will attract young people to a healthier and more active lifestyle.A survey by the Gallup Institute from May saw the satisfaction of voters with Michelle Obama at 66 percent .The approval rating for the President was however only 45 percent.Given the frustration with the slow recovery of the economy is in need of Obama charm offensive to his wife at her opening speech at the party conference on Tuesday strongly. Meanwhile, U.S. President Barack Obama has visited the hurricane "Isaac" affected areas in the southern state of Louisiana and the victims of the storm promised support.In LaPlace about 50 kilometers west of New Orleans on Monday, he met with local leaders and residents.Despite "enormous damage" it is gratifying that the hurricane did not kill any people, Obama said during his visit, for he interrupted his campaign trail for a few hours.In addition, the U.S. president praised the professionalism with which the authorities had responded to the storm.

Classified information in the book on Bin Laden


A former Navy Seal tells the raid against Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011 in a book published Tuesday. The Pentagon said Tuesday that the book written by a former Navy Seal on the raid against Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011 contained sensitive and classified information that could justify a lawsuit against the author. "We believe that this book contains classified information" , said Pentagon spokesman George Little, while the book, "Not an easy day" , was released on Tuesday across the country. Thursday evening, the chief lawyer of the Department of Defense had issued a warning to the author, noting that he had violated an agreement of non-disclosure signed when he was in active service. But so far, Pentagon officials had not ruled on whether the book actually contained classified information secret. Mr. Little said Tuesday that the department was in the process of reviewing all possible legal consequences. "There are many possibilities, but I do not intend to go into details." The spokesman reiterated that the author of the book should have submitted his book before its publication in the Pentagon, which was"common sense." Friday, the lawyer of the former Navy Seal was assured that his client had not violated any confidentiality clause binding the Pentagon. The author, who wrote "Not an easy day" under the pseudonym Mark Owen, is one of the special forces of the U.S. Navy who eliminated the leader of Al-Qaeda on 1 May 2011 in Abbottabad Pakistan. U.S. media have identified this former soldier who actually called Matt Bissonnette. In his book, he describes his role in the operation that eliminated the head of al-Qaeda and the U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan during his 14 years as a Navy Seal. If excerpts from the book that were leaked to the press before its release contain no startling revelations, some elements contradict details unveiled last year by the authorities on the death of Bin Laden.

Nuclear dispute: Iran is seeking support in North Korea


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on the West to the nuclear dispute with Tehran to draw "red lines". "Iran sees no international determination to stop its nuclear program," Netanyahu said during the weekly cabinet meeting. Israel and the U.S. want in October to hold the largest ever joint military exercises. The Israeli army said that it was a routine exercise that has nothing to do with current events. Against the backdrop of tensions with Iran over its nuclear program, however, the exercise provides a lot of attention. The maneuver had been postponed earlier this year. Iran, in turn, seeks allies. The country wants to work more closely together with the U.S., North Korea and so the teeth. To this end, both countries signed several agreements in Tehran at the weekend, as the office of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced. Both Iran and North Korea is accused by the West to prepare for the construction of nuclear weapons. Israel considers such plans of Iran in light of the demands of Tehran, to destroy Israel, as a threat to its existence. Tehran denies to develop nuclear weapons. Iran, however, called conditions for access to the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, the controversial Parchin military facility. His country wanted to gain insight into previously Western intelligence documents, said IAEA ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the Iranian news agency ISNA, according. In these confidential documents allegations of some Western countries against Tehran were included.Parchin is also not registered as a nuclear plant, the IAEA therefore not authorized to inspect the complex. Meanwhile, the leadership in Tehran to deal with allegations of Bahrain. Reason manipulations of expressions of Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi to Syria conflict by Iranian television. In his speech at the conference of the Non-Aligned Movement countries in Tehran Mursi had said on Thursday that the rebels in Syria fighting against an oppressive regime. Iran's state television had in translation into the local language Farsi simple word "Syria" replaced with "Bahrain". His speech had Mursi Iran, a close ally of the Syrian regime, duped open.

McDonald's opens its first stores in India only vegetarian food


Adapt to survive That goes for McDonald's, the largest fast food chain in the world, which in the past quarterly results showed some cracks of vulnerability to the impact of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and the anemic growth in the U.S.. Now, to exploit the pull of an emerging economy like India, there is preparing to open its first restaurants for vegetarian food only. McDonald's and was forced to change the menus of its restaurants around the world, along with burgers and fries, offer their customers salads and fruits. Now he wants to try the vegetarian all in the two great centers of pilgrimage in India, in the holy cities of Amritsar and Katra for,as advanced by the Financial Times , expand in a market where meat is taboo. It's no secret that McDonald's formula does not gel in India and China, where it is in constant process of adaptation of the menu to get to the premises.The first store in the country where cows are sacred it opened in 1996. He tried the lamb, but had to leave because the product was not the expected consistency. I changed the chicken and combined it with a number of vegetarian. The franchise now has 271 local. New restaurants all vegetarian will open next year in the cities of the Golden Temple and Vaishno Devi. The U.S. company's goal is to double its presence in India in three years. The idea, explains the company, is to start with the same menus and serve vegetarian but do not rule develop new products. Subway and Domino's already have this type of premises in India.

42 dead and 4 seriously injured in an accident in southern Morocco


At least 42 people have died and another 24 were injured, four of them critically, early this morning after a bus fell into a ravine in the Al Haouz province, in central Morocco, according to the official news agency MAP. The accident occurred at 2:00 am when the bus has plunged into a ravine about 150 feet deep at the height of Zerkten, the highway that runs from Marrakech and Zagora. Of the injured, 21 were evacuated to Ibn Tofail Hospital, Marrakech, while three others were taken to the provincial hospital in Ouarzazate. As for the dead, according to sources consulted by the MAP, five died in hospital. The governor of the province of Al Haouz, Younes El Bathaoui, has moved to the site of the tragedy to oversee rescue operations. For his part, King Mohammed VI has expressed his condolences for the victims and offered to run "expenses personally" both "victims transport, burial and funerals and the hospitalization of the injured", as reported the Royal Palace in a statement. Also, the monarch has "instructed the authorities to take the necessary steps to support and provide the necessary assistance" to the families of victims in this "loss cruel".

25 dead in attack on funeral in Afghanistan

In Afghan suicide bomber has killed at a funeral service for a tribal leader in the east of the country at least 25 people.About 35 mourners were in a bomb attack in Nangarhar province injured on Tuesday, said the spokesman for the provincial government, Ahmad Zia Abdulsai. The Interior Ministry in Kabul said, deviating from 20 dead and 50 injured. According to police, the victim had come together in the border district of Dur Baba, to bury an influential tribal leader. The bomber had detonated explosives vest were among the crowd. Main target of the attack was the district governor was, said a police spokesman. The politician had been violated. One of his sons was among the dead. The authorities made ​​the Taliban responsible for the deed. The rebels did not comment at first. The district Dur Baba borders the Pakistani tribal area of Khyber. The impassable mountain region on both sides of the border is considered a stronghold of radical Islamic extremists. According to a report by the United Nations, the number of civilian victims of the conflict in Afghanistan has risen this year. In the first six months were at least 1145 civilians were killed and almost 2,000 injured. For 80 percent of deaths make the UN insurgents responsible.