The President of the United States of America (acronym: POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
Article II of the U.S. Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president and charges him with the execution of federal law, alongside the responsibility of appointing federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory, and judicial officers, and concluding treaties with foreign powers, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The president is further empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves, and to convene and adjourn either or both houses of Congress under extraordinary circumstances. Since the founding of the United States, the power of the president and the federal government have grown substantially and each modern president, despite possessing no formal legislative powers beyond signing or vetoing congressionally passed bills, is largely responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of his party and the foreign and domestic policy of the United States. The president is frequently described as the most powerful person in the world.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
James George Janos (born July 15, 1951), better known as Jesse Ventura, is an American statesman, actor, author, and former professional wrestler who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003.
Ventura served as a Navy UDT during the Vietnam War. He later embarked on an 11-year professional wrestling career from 1975 to 1986, taking up the stage name Jesse "The Body" Ventura. He had a long tenure in the World Wrestling Federation as a performer and color commentator, and was inducted into the company's Hall of Fame in 2004. After leaving wrestling, Ventura began a successful film career, appearing in films such as 1987's Predator.
Ventura first entered politics as Mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota from 1991 to 1995. He ran as the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998, running a campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that implored citizens not to "vote for politics as usual". The campaign was successful, and Ventura served from January 4, 1999, to January 6, 2003, without running for a second term.
Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born Piers Stefan O'Meara; 30 March 1965), known professionally as Piers Morgan, is a British journalist and television presenter. He is editorial director of First News, a national newspaper for children.
Morgan branched into television mainly as a presenter, but has become best known as a judge or contestant in reality television programmes. In the UK, he was a judge on Britain's Got Talent. Morgan is best known in the United States as a judge on the show America's Got Talent, and as the winner of The Celebrity Apprentice. On 17 January 2011, he began hosting Piers Morgan Tonight for CNN in the timeslot previously occupied by Larry King Live after the retirement of host Larry King.
Morgan has authored eight books, including three volumes of memoirs.
Piers Morgan was born on 30 March 1965, in Guildford, Surrey, England, to Eamon Vincent O'Meara, a dentist, of Dorking, Surrey, and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille (née Oliver). His father died when he was one year old; his mother subsequently remarried. He has three older siblings. His ancestry includes Irish, Portuguese, Scottish, and English. Morgan was raised Catholic. Named Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan by his stepfather, Morgan attended an independent school called Cumnor House from the ages of seven to thirteen, and then Chailey School, a comprehensive secondary school in Chailey, near Lewes, East Sussex, followed by Lewes Priory School for VI form. Morgan studied Journalism at Harlow College. After a brief career at Lloyds of London, he joined the Surrey and South London Newspaper Group in 1985, where he worked as a reporter on the South London News, and the Streatham and Tooting News. Morgan was recruited (he says headhunted by editor Kelvin MacKenzie) to join The Sun newspaper, specifically to work on the Bizarre column.
Anthony John "Tony" Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian House of Representatives and federal leader of the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Abbott has represented the seat of Warringah since the 1994 by-election.
Prior to entering the Australian Parliament, Abbott studied for a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws at Sydney University and for a Master of Arts as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He later trained as a seminarian and worked as a journalist, business manager, political advisor and Executive Director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy. Abbott has also been an author, ultramarathon runner and member of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
Abbott served in the Howard Government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs from 1996-1998 and Minister for Employment Services from 1998-2001. He joined the Howard Cabinet in 2001 as Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business. Following the 2001 Election, he took on the additional roles of Leader of the House of Representatives and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service. In 2003 he became Minister for Health and Ageing , retaining this position and his role as Leader of the House until the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election.
The Power of the Universe belongs to those who dare seek it!
2012 The end of the World is here.
How to fight a country that doesn't exist?
Plot
The Jeffers Corporation is a world success, endorsed by the U.S. President, pitching productivity and happy talk. George is a third level employee, supervising three or four others. Around the world, people are exploding as the stress of denying feelings takes its toll. The Jeffers' response: mind control. George and his wife are miserable: he's impotent with occasional fits of infantile pique. She's reading a book on happiness, trying everything. His brother, released from prison, starts of freedom-of-expression movement in George's backyard. Plus there's Charisma, a woman from Level Four who sends him paperwork - with smiley faces. Can George connect?
Keywords: brother-brother-relationship, corporate, golf, happiness, husband-wife-relationship, office-work, office-worker, one-word-title, satire
Michelle: She put the shotgun in her mouth, said goodbye, and pulled the trigger. So I put my shotgun in my mouth, said goodbye, and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. Shells weren't in the book.
Charisma: You didn't know if you should bother me? You've been spying on me! I should be so mad at you.
Julieen: They don't even know there doing the same thing as everyone else just using a different name entertaining themselves missing it. Lying. None of them care about pole vaulting or dreams.
Todd: My doctor says I have to pull the trigger on my gun once an hour or I'll explode.
Sara: 'Happiness is: being happy.'... What the fuck am I supposed to do with that?
Automated announcement: [ding] There are 1,200 minutes of productivity remaining until the weekend. [ding]::Automated announcement: [one minute later] [ding] There are 1,199 minutes of productivity remaining until the weekend. [ding]
[first lines]::Maddie: Jeffers morning, George. [gives him the finger]::George: Jeffers morning. [returns the finger]
George: [knocking on his son Howard's door] Howard... have you been reading books about wolves?
George: ...and I thought, if I touched her hand it would be just like stepping into a pool of deep water.
George: [reading note left by his son] We wish, of course, that our women would die like biting rats in the cellars, our men like wolves on the mountain.
Plot
Rami Haruvi, a daring Mossad Agent, is sent to rescue the abducted US ambassador held at the state of Sugyra. If Rami fails his mission, the annual mossad vacation at "Olga Resort" will be canceled. Due to the importance of the mission, Hayim, the Head of the Mossad decides to assign Rami a new agent to his mission - the daughter of a mythological Mossad agent named Shuki, a ladies' man and Rami's role model. The two are getting into trouble both in their mission and relationship. Are the Americans good? Are the terrorist bad? Yet none of it compares to the real important question: will Hayim get his longed annual vacation at the Olga Resort?
Keywords: agent, ambassador, army, basel, carrot, cult, flag, hebrew, intelligence, israel
Hayim - Head of Mossad: Do you have a sister your age?
Plot
One year later, agent Cody Banks is back for another awesome adventure but this time he must track down a former instructor who's gone rogue with a mind-control microchip. Banks masquerades as a musical prodigy to get close to a snobby, egocentric scientist in London who's the only person who can make the microchip work. Along the way Banks hooks up with a demoted agent and a cute-as-a-bug Scotland Yard operative. When Agent Cody Banks heads to England to catch an evil scientist who's stolen a mind-control device for his plot to rule the world and turning the world leaders into zombies!
Keywords: ambush, axe, beating, blonde, boarding-school, brawl, british, british-intelligence, british-secret-service, brother-brother-relationship
Adventure is an attitude.
Derek: No wonder all the malls are empty. They got all you kids working undercover.
Emily: You know what I hate about dentists? They always say something's not gonna hurt and it does. Me, I'm honest. Now this is gonna hurt.
Helicopter Pilot: I just love the smell of summer camp in the evening.
Cody Banks: [talking about entrance to CIA storage facility underneath summer camp] What? That's impossible! Kids have been snooping around this place for years! Someone would've found the entrance by now!::C.I.A. Director: That's why we put it... where no-one wants to spend too much time. [goes into bathroom, which at summer camps, usually are of low-quality and smell like something died in there]
Cody Banks: How come I get a retainer and a clarinet and James Bond gets a Aston Martin?::Kumar: All in good time double "O" junior.
Cody Banks: [after he got beaten up by a beanie baby] What happened to you?::C.I.A. Director: I don't want to talk about it.
C.I.A. Director: You'll be attending a summer music academy.::Cody Banks: More school, just once in my life I'd like a mission that doesn't involve homework [pause] wait, did you say music?::C.I.A. Director: Yeah it's a good thing you play the clarinet.::Cody Banks: Yeah... wait, I don't play the clarinet.::C.I.A. Director: Your father says you were in a school marching band for three years.::Cody Banks: I faked playing the clarinet to meet girls.::C.I.A. Director: You joined a marching band to meet girls?::Cody Banks: Yeah.::C.I.A. Director: Well you faked it for three years you can handle it for a couple of weeks. You'll be part of an international youth orchestra.::Cody Banks: An international youth orchestra, where?
Derek: Here's my ride, designed it myself, Gucci interior, plasma flat screen, DVD, surround sound, GPS navigation system, and riding shotgun, my right hand man Kumar.::Kumar: What up Mr. Banks, it is a bit young.::Derek: And to top it off... whooo, I got the fastest system in all of London::[he begins playing music but Cody shuts it off]::Cody Banks: Of course, everytime you turn that on you risk blowing your cover and putting yourself and all your men in danger.::Derek: Nany, nany, Nah. You know what your problem is Banks, your too darn old, act like a kid, that's why they recruited you::[he plays the music agian]
Boy 1: Hey Cody, can I get you anything, debriefing, recon mission, juice box?::Cody Banks: No thanks.::Boy 2: Okay well we're here if you need any thing.::Boy 3: You know us, USA first, Cody Banks second, Then mom and apple pie tie for third.::Cody Banks: Thanks.
Cody Banks: Go and write that on your lunch box.
Plot
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960's and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Keywords: 1960s, actress, alternative-history, anti-semitism, archive-footage, art-collection, based-on-novel, berlin-germany, betrayal, bus-ride
It's 1964. What if Hitler had won the war?
Xavier March: How do I tell my son that I've served murderers all my life?
Charlie Maguire: They killed all the Jews.::Xavier March: No, we didn't. We resettled them.
Artur Nebe: What do you want, Globus?::Odilo 'Globus' Globocnik: I want to... broaden your horizons.
Xavier March: Let me tell you a story about a clockmaker. He was over a hundred years old. Wrinkled face, his hair was white as snow. He'd worked all his life, hunched over clocks like this. So, he was a hunchback. People thought he was ugly, people of the village, and they used to call him names. So, he lived on top of the mountain with all his clocks. And he worked day and night. While he was working all the time, he didnt notice that the hunch on his back started to grow. Bigger and bigger. And one day, when he went out for a walk, his nose almost touched the ground. Thats how big it was. And that same night he was working, working away with little clocks, and they suddenly stopped ticking and he looked up. And he saw, in the mirror, two little feathers coming out of his coat and he started growing. And he looked in the mirror and he saw that he had these two big wings. And all the clocks starting singing. And he opened the window, looked at the stars, and flew up in the sky.::Pili March: Then what happened to him?::Xavier March: He became an Angel.::Pili March: Will that happen to him?::Xavier March: Well. We can't kill angels can we?
Artur Nebe: You're a good promotion prospect, Xavi, leave this alone and you could go far. You can't afford to make an enemy of Globus... or of me.
SS-Untersturmführer Max Jäger: [Ordering coffee in SS Headquarters as a male and female prisoner are led away] Another busy day in the Sexual Crimes Unit. Who are the lovebirds?::Sex Crimes Cop: Pure Aryan woman and a Polock. Caught right in the act. Coffee, please. Resettlement day for her, ten years hard labor for him. I just don't understand these people.::SS-Untersturmführer Max Jäger: Every time somebody makes love, somebody else writes a report.::Sex Crimes Cop: Yeah, that's right.
Anna Von Hagen: Berlin was beautiful before the war. The only thing that spoilt it was the Jews. I have no career left but I would like to go to America just to upset the Jews. So what do you think? Think you'll finally do something about your Jews as we did with ours?::Charlie Maguire: What did you do?::Anna Von Hagen: We put them in cattle cars and shipped them east. Always east.::Charlie Maguire: To the Ukraine, you mean? To the resettlement camps?::Anna Von Hagen: Ja, to resettle them. In the air.
Charlie Maguire: [recalling a Gestapo agent at Stuckart's apartment] That wasn't the man who let me in this morning.::Xavier March: You didn't mention "a man" in your statement!
Plot
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long running effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Keywords: air-raid-siren, apocalypse, armageddon, atomic-bomb, baby, baby-born, barn, bed-wetting, beer-drinking, birth
The end of the world as we know it.
The closest you'll ever want to come to nuclear war.
Narrator: In an urban society, everything connects. Each person's needs are fed by the skills of many others. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. But the connections that make society strong also make it vulnerable.
Peace Speaker: This time they are playing with at best the destruction of life as we know it and at worst total annihlation. You cannot win a nuclear war! Now just suppose the Russians did win this war... What exactly would they be winning? Well, I'll tell you! All major centers of population and industry would have been destroyed. The soil would have been irradiated. Farmstock would be dead, diseased or dying. The Russians would have conquered a corpse of a country.
Michael Kemp: Jimmy's getting married!::Alison Kemp: Are you? Well it's a bit sudden! You're not even engaged!::Jimmy Kemp: How do you know? Anyway, it's nowt to do wi' you, so keep your nose out.::Alison Kemp: Are you getting married in a church or in a registry office?::Michael Kemp: Alison, what's an abortion?::Mrs. Kemp: Michael! I've told you once...::Alison Kemp: Oh! So *that's* it!
Public Information Film Announcer: The time has now come to make everything ready for you and your family in case an air attack happens. This does not mean that war is about to come, but there is a risk of it, and we must all be prepared.
Public Information Film Announcer: If you leave your home, your local authority may take it over for homeless families. And, if you move, the authorities in the new place will not help you with food, accommodation, or other essentials. You are better off in your own home. Stay there.
Public Information Film Announcer: If anyone dies while you are kept in your fallout room, move the body to another room in the house. Label the body with name and address, and cover it as tightly as possible in polythene, paper, sheets or blankets. If, however, you've had a body in the house for more than five days *and* if it is safe to go outside, then you should bury the body for the time being in a trench or cover it with earth, and mark the spot of the burial.
[as a mushroom cloud rises in the distance]::Bob: Jesus Christ! They've done it... They've done it!
Air Raid Warning Center: [alarm blaring on loudspeaker] Attack Warning! Red! Attack Warning! Red!::Food Officer: Attack warning! Is it for real?::Accomodation Officer: Attack warning's for bloody real!::Clive Sutton: Right, get to your stations!
Narrator: It is 8:30 a.m. 3:30 in the morning in Washington. Over the past few days, neither the President nor his senior staff will have had more than a few hours rest. This is when they may be asleep. This is when Western response will be slowest.
Jimmy Kemp: Gonna get married and 'av baby.