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Its inside story. Welcome to inside story on al jazeera america. Im ray suarez. There was a time somalis Violent Extremist Group alshabab vied for control of much of the cratering state. It collected taxes, set up religious courts, and with remorseless pitiless violence, it threatened the stability of the fledgeling government. These days that alshabab is in trouble in somali. Revenues are down, territory under the groups control is whittled down. Alshabab is under pressure, in decline, and very...

Inside story. Welcome to inside story on al jazeera america. Im ray suarez. There was a time somalis Violent Extremist Group alshabab vied for control of much of the cratering state. It collected taxes, set up religious courts and with remorseless pitiless violence it threatened the stability of the fledgeling government. These days that alshabab is in trouble in somali. Revenues are down territory under the groups control is whittled down. Alshabab is under pressure in decline, and very dangero...

, Lieutenant Governor steele and congressman hoyer, distinguished faculty, distinguished guests, proud parents, family, friends, and most of all the graduating midshipmen of the class of 2005, i am honored to be here. [applause] and i am proud to stand before the future leaders of the navy and marine corps and to celebrate the occasion i thought i would bring along a small graduation gift. It is too late to give you a stall back day so i will do the next best thing. In keeping with longstanding ...

Expolice its jurisdiction over the con explicit jurisdiction over the countrys seat of government. The extent to which congress should oversee or intervene in the governance of the district is a debate for another day, but its clearly our responsibility. Current law compels congressional oversight and we must exercise responsibly that jurisdiction. That includes acting to stop legislation that clearly violates the constitutional freedoms of the citizens of the district. Mr. Speaker, its importan...

That involves behavioral change. We have an epidemic of obesity and type two diabetes. That is absolutely critical. Health and health care are related. Keeping people healthier longer is absolutely critical. We let this slide folks moved to the city, they walk less, they have access to fast food. The obesity epidemic is following the growth of gdp around the world and the developing nations. Smoking is a huge issue in our country. Host what is your personal reaction when you see the advertisemen...

Improving our web functionality. Supporting even better the agents and certified counselors in the field. Second, weve been adjusting our marketing. The states had resources to do marketing. In tv, radio, digital. Were actually adjusting some of those strategies as we go into the last two months to have new and expanded placements. In particular, Spanish Language and target the latino community. But also with a shift of methods. Many of the consumers, in particular uninsured, have said they real...

Colleague, richard quest, who will join me live from london. Just such an incredibly sad development to that story. We also have big news developing here on this continent. The new report out surprising one on the jobs. Wow. Check out the growth of the jobs in the United States in november. Look at that number. Triple digits. We werent even sure if it dwoubl digits. 146,000 new jobs. It is more than twice what the economists were expecting. Certainly this has got to be a good surprise. 25 days b...

Health initiatives, and they were very effective. One last thing, weve had lots of discussions of how we get additional va doctors into the system and what can we do as far as i guess the medical what is it . The medical so that they can get, i guess, forgiveness on their loans when they work for the va or whether in florida, for example, a lot of our interns go out of the state because we dont have the whats the word . They go out of the state residency. And so we dont have those slots. What ca...

I am deeply honored today to appear as president obamas nominee to be the United States ambassador to the republic of barack. I am grateful to the president and secretary for their confidence in me. If confirmed, i will work closely with you to advance u. S. Goals in iraq. Alec four to building an excellent work of my predecessor and friend who is with us today. I am also delighted to share this battle with dana smith, a valued colleague of many years. With your permission, i would like to intro...

Well, i happen to have in my hand, mr. Speaker, the testimony from then Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke, february 9, 2011. Mr. Speaker, you wont remember february 9, 2011, here in the chamber but that was my first month on the job. Id just gotten sworn in. Theyd just given me the voting card for for the seventh district of georgia, im sitting in the committee and here comes Federal Reserve chairman ben bernanke, to talk to me, just a freshman here in congress, about Economic Policy and how...