January 18, 2014
By Zeke J. Miller
...Fifteen months (click here) after the 2012 election, Mitt, a documentary which screened Friday at the Sundance Film Festival and will be available this week on Netflix, provides a historic view inside not one, but two, of Romney’s losing presidential campaigns through the lens of the candidate and his family. In that respect it is the inverse of the seminal 1992 campaign documentary War Room, which told the story of the Clinton campaign through its celebrity operatives. Mitt, in the words of director Greg Whiteley, is essentially “a bunch of scenes of Romney and his family hanging out.” His campaign was always skeptical of the project, and almost never agreed to be on camera....
What makes it even more disgusting is the fact the Chinese people live in squalor and when they don't, they are living and working in overcrowded conditions that cause extreme stress. They have no privacy. They work incredibly long and arduous hours for American based companies. It is completely disgusting what men like Mitt Romney have done to people around the globe. They have left nations helpless to take care of their people while pocketing incredible amounts of money for personal wealth. And justifying as "The American Way." NOT! They are disgrace to the USA. A complete disgrace.
Washington
January 21, 2014
President Barack Obama and Pope Francis (click here) will meet for the first time in March, during an encounter the White House said would be focused on tackling the disturbing growth in inequality.
“The president will continue on to Vatican City on 27 March to meet with His Holiness, Pope Francis,” Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The president looks forward to discussing with Pope Francis their shared commitment to fighting poverty and growing inequality.”
Bridging the growing gap between rich and poor has become a priority for both leaders, although they come to the issue from different standpoints.
Francis, who made his name caring for the poor in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has won plaudits from Catholics and secularists alike for his impassioned plea to ameliorate suffering in the poorest corners of the world....
