Another day and yet another series of torturous events unfolded for the main city of Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber intentionally collided his Toyota minibus into an American Convoy — midst the rush-hour traffic. This suicide attack claimed the lives of 5 American soldiers (looks like America has more lives to spare, because they’re not pulling out these boys, until next summer!). Other than that, the casualties included 13 locals, alongside 47 wounded men, women and children.

The assault was a reaction to the ongoing efforts of Afghan leaders and NATO commanders, towards launching a major offensive in the southern city of Kandahar. These attacks are a strong indication of what the future is going to hold if political parties are going to continue with their offense.

The suicide attack wasn’t the only incident that day because less than 24 hours later, a group of Taliban extremists opened fire against the American base at Bagram. The results ended up in the death of 7 extremists and 5 wounded American soldiers.

The recent suicide bombing incident on Tuesday pushed the number of Americans killed in the Afghan operations, since autumn 2001, to 1,000+. However, there have been tons of violent incidents and they all started during the Bush regime. Since then, only a 1,000+ figure in 9 years? Obviously officials are holding back those actual figures, just to pretend that the overall situation is under control and we haven’t lost a lot of American lives.

As of now, for local residents, suicide attacks, blood shot streets and bags filled with human body parts, have become a common thing.

We don’t know for how long these stories of violence and mayhem are going to continue, but a lot of people are to be blamed for this whole mess and George W. Bush is definitely one of those people. Okay, we do understand he wanted to put an end to terrorism and all that stuff, but America never lost so many of its sons and fathers before the operations initiated.

After those anti-western comments and small speeches, breezy enough to arouse a little bit of dishevelment against westerners, President Hamid Karzai and Uncle Sam are back in business. Well, we cant really empty the entire bucket of blame on Karzai, because the U.S. complaints also pointed out that Karzai wasn’t doing a lot to deal with corruption in his country. So its more of a two way deal thing these days.

Anyways, the Afghan President spent a good time at the White House, sharing cocktails and having a hearty lunch. However, the whole agenda of this meeting wasn’t targeted towards catching up on good old times.

Karzai wanted some sort of re assurance that America won’t be abandoning him, even after the troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan, next summer. To make things better and to show warm feelings and his sensitive side, Karzai painstakingly took a small tour to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, just to check in on wounded troops and to pay tribute to the fallen heroes.

On top of everything, Obamaville and Clinton didn’t show a lot of concern regarding the drug trafficking issues and corruption in Afghanistan (meaning, either things were okay – or maybe they didn’t have time to investigate).

Apparently, at the time being, most of the success factor for Karzai is dependent on his leadership and how he manages to deliver that creative visualization thing, to the common man in Afghanistan. America is also willing to help out Karzai in terms of the U.S. strategy for Afghanistan, but Hamid Karzai has to make people believe in him.

China has been having trouble with respect to intellectual property issues as they recently lost a few patents. They created a new policy to curtail this issue that is apparently holding a threat to harm U.S. business men and investors.

America, on the other hand is also hurting its own workers by failing to round up the free trade agreements and the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce mentioned this factor on Friday. Some officials are going to visit China next week to discuss currency related aspects and proper measures of counterfeiting the intellectual property issues.

But patent and intellectual property issues are not at top of the list for most of the people out there. We have U.S. trade policies that are stuck in a state of suspension, but there has been a lot of negotiation lately. However, it is true that a proper set of protocols needs to be followed because negotiations alone are not going to be enough in the long run.

For now, the U.S. is supposed to quickly pass those pending free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea. These deals were signed by George Bush and the only catch is that they haven’t been approved by the Obama Administration yet. There are still hopes of getting these policies approved because nearly 1 in 10 Americans is looking for labor oriented work, so we can’t afford any more delay.

In the recent Court House drama, the Supreme Court decided to bolt its front doors due to security concerns. This means that a common man can no longer set foot in the premises of the Supreme Court, through those front doors – until further notice.

The reason for this unexpected decision was due to the fact that two Justices expressed their disapproval by issuing a dissent towards the “new change” in the Supreme Court. Well, frankly, the big guys had already made up their mind to close the doors and the issue only got more ignited after the open disapproval of;

- Justice Stephen Breyer
- Justice Ruth Bader

In addition, Justice Breyer said that he does recognize those reasons for this change but let alone, those reasons are not enough for a proper justified act. I sure hope that the public will one day be allowed to stroll through those front doors and enter the Court’s Great Hall, right after passing these words;

“Equal Justice Under Law”

There was a time when writers, artists and common people of America used to walk the walk and talk the talk, believing that those words alone, are enough to speak up for a fair and square mode of justice. Anyone was able to walk up those steps, under the impression that the court will serve him/her with meaningful justice and their right to be subject to a fair trial, would always be intact.

According to the new changes, visitors are still going to be able to exit the building from the front entrance. But let us hope that the officials don’t feel “threatened” in the future so that once again, the doors of this legendary building are open for all American people, common and uncommon.

ANN ARBOR, MICH. – Once again, in direct rebuttal to those Tea Party activists and Republicans, President Barack Obama emphasized on civility and defense of the government. He said that the nation is going through some poisonous and tough political times and instead of using harsh words like Socialist, Fascist and Soviet Style Takeover, we need to work as a team and set our differences aside.

Calling out names and jabbing each other with different sarcastic words isn’t what politicians and people of America are supposed to do. If we start out by categorizing political parties and groups as “Left Wing Nut” or “Right Wing Nut”, then no one is going to listen to them at the first place.

The White House has witnessed one of those anti tax and anti government protests, many a times, by Tea Party Activists and The Republicans. Mostly at rallies people just want Obama to step off so they can have their country back once again.

But as usual after the President was finished with his speech, there were some cross eyed faces, shaking in disapproval. Senator Mitch McConnell and Tea Party founder Judson Phillips said that the only people who should be heeding to President Obama’s words, are supposed to be those who have been following him.

However, the audience at the Michigan University interrupted Obama a couple of times due to their applause and they also gave him a standing ovation by the end of his speech. We sure hope that the President was successful in delivering his message, regarding; open thinking, broad mindedness and the power to take the right decisions.

Investors are in a grumpy shade these days because they trimmed the sails of corporate insiders in accordance to votes from two major banks. These “victories” were unusual because they emerged despite of the opposition from company’s board of directors.

Share holders just passed a resolution at Bank of America that is going to give shareholders to call a meeting as long as owners are going to vote in favor of it. But there’s a small catch to it as well, the meeting can only be called if owners of 10% of the shares are willing to unite. Initially the limit was set to a 25% but Ray Chevedden (Los Angeles) made some last minute changes to this proposal, he himself, owns over 200 shares.

Shareholders will be able to take part in the nomination of new directors, make suggestion in important matters and take part in decision making through the new resolution. BofA has tried to convince shareholders to vote against the proposal from Ray Chevedden because it is believed that the current 10% to 25% limit is only going to represent a balance between the ability of shareholders to call one of those special meetings, while the interest of our company and its stockholders is going to be ignored to some extent.

One similar proposal was also motioned last year at Bank of New York Mellon and it got a big mainstream support from different people. Although, the mainstream doesn’t always constitute of high ranking officials like; bank directors, but still, it does hold a major number of influential people.

MONTREAT, N.C. – The U.S. President Barack Obama recently made a pilgrimage Sunday to evangelist Billy Graham’s home. Despite of being a President, Barack Obama is also a good human being, who, at times, needs to pray for this great country, talk his heart out with someone old and wise and spend some time off to relieve his nerves.

He spent almost 30 to 40 minutes with Billy Graham and during that light hearted and cordial conversation, both of them talked about their connection to Chicago, Golf, College days and political career.

Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham), later on, happily revealed that the President prayed for my father and my father prayed for him, the country, our brave soldiers and the people of America. In addition, President Obama was gifted two copies of bible, personally from Billy Graham. One was for Obama and the other copy was meant for Michele Obama.

Presidency is not a walk in some lavish garden because there are tons of moments when tough decisions have to be made – sacrifices, demands, humbleness and loneliness is all part of the Presidency game. Obama confided in Billy Graham about his inner thoughts and asked for wisdom, the courage and strength to make the right decisions for the American people.

Despite of being subject to constant ailing condition, Billy Graham managed to serve the U.S. President in the bestest form. It is just like as if he was ready for this small meeting and after it was regrettably over, Obama made his way to West Virginia to offer his condolences and express his views on the loss of those unfortunate 29 miners, who got killed in a coal mine explosion on April 5^th.

In one of his recent speeches, President Obama spoke about the Immigration Reforms. He said that, our mistakes and ir-responsibilities at Federal level are only going to open up more doors towards mishaps. This way, more and more people will repeat those mistakes and these things have already occurred in Arizona.

In order to make a sound decision, Obama needs support from both the Democrats and the Republicans, on unanimous basis and he made that clear in his speech. If an immigration reform works out, borders are going to be strengthened (to prevent illegal activities and trafficking) and it is also going to soothe the lives of those millions of people who already immigrated to America.

Surely we cannot deny the fact that almost 11 million people are living in America on illegal grounds. But sending them back or letting them rot behind prison bars is not the perfect solution for all those families. Some of them have small businesses here, some work day in-day out to support their loved ones and some folks are just not willing to go back – maybe because they promised a good future to all those people for whom they had to opt for an immigration.

Arizona is subject to federal level investigations and documents of suspected immigrants are being checked these days. This is to ensure a proper protocol for “check and balance” based agenda. President Obama’s words sparked up the audience when he said that he understands the fact which points to all of you on an individual level. Some of you made it to America through tough times, some of you had to come here at a young age, while others came here as adults but we can only allow those people to stay in America who are going to abide by the U.S. Laws and Regulations.

In related news (previous bombing plans in America), two top Al-Qaeda leaders were identified in regards to ordering a massive terrorist attack on New York subway system. The U.S. authorities call it as – “one of the deadliest terrorist plans”, since the fateful incident of Sept. 11, 2001.

Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay were found guilty of planning this terrifying act in the Brooklyn courtroom. Ahmedzay (New York City Taxi Driver) confessed in the courtroom that he plotted this suicide attack in the month of Ramadan, with Zazi and some other foreign aides.

Both Zazi and Ahmedzay met on the borders of Pakistan-Afghanistan, amidst the company of some other Al-Qaeda leaders, who instructed them to go back to America and carry on with this mission. From then on, a proper plan was planned, towards the detonation of explosives in the New York subway system.

Ahmedzay and Zazi are facing several other charges of planning terrorist activities and after the accusations are proved (which will be eventually), they’re going to face the prison, on a life sentence basis. Ahmedzay and Zazi would have been lucky if their request for staying in Afghanistan and fighting the sacred fight was accepted, but the Al-Qaeda leaders decided on letting them move back to America and execute the plan.

A third man, Adis Medunjanin was also caught during the investigations but this lucky fella has been found “not guilty”. Unfortunately it’s another ‘0’ for the terrorists and ‘1’ for the FBI. Let’s see how Obama Administration is going to counter the upcoming terrorist threats, plans and deadly plots.

In the news today, President Obama has tied the nation’s recession towards unending taxes and job losses, to the loose and malfunctioned oversight of the Wall Street executives. He emphasized on the essentiality of learning lessons from the past and not repeating them. This sort of lifestyle isn’t acceptable to me, and to all the American people – said President Obama.

Don’t get carried away by the breezy speech by President Obama because the Americans had it coming, after the announcement of a bill to curb the financial turmoil. The failure of financial institutions is going to jeopardize America’s economy and that is why the financial reform bill was passed.

Seeing that the Republicans were all up for a big “NO” against the financial reform bill, Sen. Chuck Schumer (Democrats – N. Y), found it really hard to believe. He was assuming that both parties will be working together for the betterment of the country and its people, because it was a big cause.

In his speech, President Obama spoke to an audience of 700 people. Some of the Chief Guests included;

* New York Gov. David Paterson
* New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
* Former Federal Reserve Chairman – Paul Volcker

President Obama spoke as if he had the audience full of Wall Street executives and at one point, when he did mention something about Wall Street, there were significant “Boos” to be heard. But he did say this out loud that a selfish and cold hearted pursuit for profits is only going to roughen up the economy.