West Wing Week: 1/6/12 or, "2012: The Annual Resolutions Edition"
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Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, to speak on appointing Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which will protect families from predatory lenders, spoke on a comprehensive review of our defense strate... Read more
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- -: West Wing Week: 1/6/12 or, "2012: The Annual Resolutions Edition"
January 6, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, to speak on appointing Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which will protect families from predatory lenders, spo...
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- -: President Obama Appoints Richard Cordray to Lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
January 5, 2012 (over 12 years ago)Say you stand with President Obama and Richard Cordray: https://my.barackobama.com/richardcordrayvid President Obama speaks on appointing Richard Cordray as America's consumer watchdog. Speaking to students and teachers at Shaker Heights High School near Cleveland, Ohio, the President said: "T...
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- -: President Obama on "appeasement"
December 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Watch and pass it on: http://my.barackobama.com/presservid After making a statement to the press, President Obama was asked what his reaction is to Republican presidential candidates who accuse him of practicing appeasement in his foreign policy—particularly his approach to the Middle East.
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- -: President Obama on consumer protection
December 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Watch and pass it on: http://my.barackobama.com/presservid President Obama had a clear message for Senate Republicans following their vote to block his nominee to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray. Watch the video and pass it on.
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- -: President Obama on the payroll tax cut
December 9, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Watch and pass it on: http://my.barackobama.com/presservid Senate Republicans have repeatedly voted not to extend President Obama's payroll tax cut—effectively voting to raise taxes on middle-class families. Watch President Obama's response to them and pass it on.
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- -: Greg Stone: Saving the ocean one island at a time
November 3, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Aboard Mission Blue, oceanographer Greg Stone tells the story of how he helped the Republic of Kiribati create an enormous protected area in the middle of the Pacific -- protecting fish, sealife and the island nation itself. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks ...
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- -: Kristina Gjerde: Making law on the high seas
November 22, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com Kristina Gjerde studies the law of the high seas -- the 64 percent of our ocean that isn't protected by any national law at all. Gorgeous photos show the hidden worlds that Gjerde and other lawyers are working to protect from trawling and trash-dumping, through smart policymaki...
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- -: YouTube and Copyright - Chad Hurley and Steve Chen
June 15, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=1071 YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen discuss copyright issues regarding web video, in a conversation with Wired Magazine Editor-In-Chief Chris Anderson. ----- Chad Hurley and Steven Chen in conversation with Chris Anderson. ...
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- -: Internet Video: This Is Only the Beginning
December 20, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/19/Scott_Kirsner_Inventing_the_Movies Journalist Scott Kirsner draws on film history to ponder the potential of online video, and criticizes the motion picture industry for being slow to adapt to the new medium. Kirsner urges Hollywood studios to regard ...
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- -: Geithner Praises Elizabeth Warren for Consumer Watchdog Agency
July 22, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says Elizabeth Warren would be a "very effective leader" of the consumer watchdog agency mandated by the financial reform bill President Obama recently signed into law. "She represents to a la...
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