US MEDIA ASK IS THERE LOST TRUST IN THE USA OVER WASHINGTON-WIKI LEAKS SCANDAL?
Whose bad? Julian Assange apparently is so bad.–image via AP
The question on the table today via the Global Media is: has the world lost trust over the USA’s Washington-Wikileaks scandal that reads like a tabloid of US gossip concerning major world leaders – or was the trust lost already by the George W. Bush‘s reign of US politics, war mismanagement and the over-eager depletion of the US economy? A few leaked docs/ cable transcripts – are hardly going to tarnish America’s trust record.
The asset-bubble spill over effects that global leaders in the world rightly say America is responsible for contributing into the global economy with a draw down of $600 billion–is this the cause of lost trust for the USA that the media are referring to? That shocking information was announced, straight up – straight to cam, not leaked. And now, a future for the world, facing North Korea and Iran’s nuclear missile’s management concerns–can the world still trust America to lead? Of course we can–even after we know how America really feels about the world. Why does that change anything?
And although Afghanistan is not the focus right now and unexpectedly honest confessions are, in the form of leaked security documents–isn’t the North Korea/ Iran issue more prevalent, then ‘who let the cat out of the bag with US diplomatic relations?’ With a view not to judge, in a group of people, such descriptions are kinda normal. Why the big fuss?
Anyway, here’s what news outlets are reporting today as I observe from Hollywood.
U.S Natonal security has been “severely damaged.” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says: “We’re at war … [and] the world is getting more dangerous by the day”–reports CBC Canada
“Shocked. Shocked. Shocked” is what Judith Miller says the US is after reading Russia’s Vladimir Putin being described as an “Alpha Dog” (more…)
G-20 LEADERS CALL FOR A NEW CURRENCY OTHER THAN THE US DOLLAR – FIVE THINGS ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S LEMON SQUEEZED ECONOMIC OUTLOOKS – 11.12.10
Alright. I’ve been putting this post off for about five days now, because I’m all about supporting leaders, not knocking them. However this requires a word.
I am aware that I have lived in America over double the time that President Barack Obama has been the 44th President of the United States, so I will try and be lenient regarding other peoples comments on his economic policies. It matters neither way to me, as I can’t vote, but here’s the economic forecast:
Germany’s view on America economics via Bloomberg News:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, addressing a business audience in Berlin today, said she told Obama in a phone call that cutting government debt is “absolutely important for us.” She adds: “If we don’t get onto a path of sustainable economic growth but have rather a growth bubble, then if the next crisis comes we won’t be able to pay for it.”
South Korea calls Obama out on his dodgy economic policies as diagnosed by America’s own first Sewell Chan, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and David E. Sanger of Reuters for The New York Times via Mercury News:
“SEOUL, South Korea — President Barack Obama’s hopes of emerging from his Asia trip with the twin victories of a free-trade agreement with South Korea and a unified approach to spurring global economic growth ran into resistance on all fronts Thursday, putting Obama at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners.
The most concrete trophy expected to emerge from the trip eluded his grasp: a long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea, first negotiated by the Bush administration and then reopened by Obama, to have greater protections for U.S. workers.
