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Commentary: "Obama Plunging Towards Psychological Collapse" [09/08/10] "Obama betrays collapse toward "narcissistic catastrophe" with unscripted "dog" remark in Milwakee. There has been widespread concern about Obama's mental health since his unscripted remarks Monday evening in Milwaukee, when he said, "Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time, and they're not always happy with me. THEY TALK ABOUT ME LIKE A DOG. [...]"    

Commentary: "Obama’s Hopeless Speech " [09/08/10] "The new numbers are easier to grasp. The President wants to fix 3.7% of the roads, 2.8 of the railways and 1.9% of the airports. That’s a number expected of regular maintenance activities. Probably Bolivia, Nepal and Zambia invest similar proportions of work every year. The bottom line is minor roadwork presented as a " new Industrial Revolution". [...]"   

Obama on Labor Day: " No measures to address jobs crisis" [09/08/10] "In a speech delivered to mark Labor Day in the US, President Obama made clear that there will be no significant government measures to address the most severe jobs crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. [...]"  Note: Why bother to say anything at all? What a useless individual.

Rahm Emanuel For Mayor? Daley won't run again in Chicago [09/08/10] "White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has said he would like to run for mayor of Chicago someday – and that day might have arrived. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced Tuesday that he will not run for reelection, saying he wants to move on. His decision could clear an exit from the White House for Emanuel, who himself is widely believed to be looking for a graceful way to move on after two grueling years in President Obama’s inner circle. In an interview with Charlie Rose in April, Emanuel said he supported Daley but that he would like to seek the position if the opportunity presented itself. "I hope Mayor Daley seeks reelection. I will work and support him if he seeks reelection," Emanuel said. "But if Mayor Daley doesn't, one day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago.” Emanuel added, “That's always been an aspiration of mine, even when I was in the House of Representatives.” The problem for Emanuel is that the election in Chicago is a short six months away – Feb. 22 – and his plate at the White House is full, as he is juggling the midterm elections, Obama’s efforts to turn around the economy and a host of other policy issues.  [...]"  

Orwellian Double Speak: The True Cost of the War   "Obama’s “end of Iraq war” speech must have shattered any remaining belief in him. Forced to appease both his supporters and the warmonger right-wing, who denounce him as a Muslim and a Marxist, Obama resorted to Orwellian DoubleSpeak. He could only announce an end to the war by praising the president who started it and the troops who fought it. Yet, as most earthlings, if not Americans, surely know by now, the war was based on a lie and on intentional deception.   [...] Does anyone on earth, even among the most moronic of the flag-waving American super-patriots, believe that the bankrupt United States government spent three trillion borrowed dollars to remove one man, Saddam Hussein, in order to free Iraq from tyranny? Anyone who believes this is insane. Saddam Hussein would have resigned for far less money had it been offered to him. Do Americans see the irony in the “saving Iraq from tyranny” excuse? The greatest price of the neoconservative war against Iraq is not the $3 trillion or the dead and maimed American soldiers and their broken families. The greatest price of this evil war is the destruction of the U.S. Constitution and American civil liberties. The Bush/Cheney/Obama National Security State has eviscerated the Constitution and civil liberty. Nothing remains. The fascist Republican Federalist Society has put enough federal judges in the judiciary to rule that the president is above the law. The president doesn’t have to obey the law against spying on American citizens without warrants. The president doesn’t have to obey U.S. and international laws against torture. The president doesn’t have to obey the Constitution that mandates that only Congress can declare war. The president can do whatever he wants as long as he justifies it as “national security.” [...]" 

Obama, Corporate Media Ignore Widespread Health Problems on The Gulf Coast [09/07/10] "If you listen to Thad Allen, Obama’s point man on the BP oil gusher, we’re over the hump. On the weekend the former Coast Guard commander said the well no longer poses a threat to the Gulf and crews will now begin the last few remaining operations needed to abandon the well this week. In short, Obama gets to declare another mission accomplished. However, here is what Allen and the corporate media are not talking about — residents along the Gulf Coast are sick from the effects of the oil gusher. [...]"   

'Obama proposes huge public works plan' [09/07/10] "U.S. President Barack Obama Monday proposed a massive new public works program to create jobs. Though the president did not mention a price tag, published reports have placed it at $50 billion. "Over the next six years, we are going to rebuild 150,000 miles of our roads -- enough to circle the world six times," Obama said. "We're going to lay and maintain 4,000 miles of our railways -- enough to stretch coast-to-coast. We're going to restore 150 miles of runways and advance a next generation air-traffic control system to reduce travel time and delays for American travelers -- something I think folks across the political spectrum could agree on." [...]"   Note: We'll never see this, either. 

MSM: "Obama vows to expand 'thriving middle class'" [09/06/10] "US President Barack Obama on Saturday vowed to expand a prosperous middle class and help his compatriots achieve the American Dream as the country prepared to celebrate Labor Day. [...]"  Note:  A totally delusional position, all the way around. There is no prosperous 'middle class' ... he doesn't have any 'compatriots' that are sane .... there is no 'American Dream' ... and 'Labor Day' is when you don't work, perhaps because you don't have any. Another Raw Story propaganda piece.

Book: Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory [09/01/10] " The paper "Conspiracy Theories" by Harvard law professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule is a warning for all 9/11 Truth groups. Although the paper is allegedly about conspiracy theory in a general sense, it is clearly centered on 9/11. I submit that this indicates a rising concern within certain powerful but ill-defined circles. Below is a self- explanatory segment from Sunstein's Wikipedia page as well as Dr. David Ray Griffin's new book, Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory .. [...]"    

Lawsuit challenges Obama's power to kill citizens without due process [08/31/10] "The ACLU and CCR this afternoon filed a lawsuit on behalf of Anwar Awlaki, with Awlaki's father as the named plaintiff, to prevent the Obama administration from proceeding with Awlaki's due-process-free assassination. Awlaki is unable to file the lawsuit on his own because the U.S. government's threats to kill him, as well as its prior unsuccessful attempts, cause him to be in hiding and thus make it infeasible for him to assert his legal rights directly. [...]"   

Corruption Investigators: Blago Investigation Cut Short to Protect Obama [08/27/10] "It looked to me that the trial was turning into a political nightmare for the Obama White House. And this may explain why the prosecution shut their case down a month early," said Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton. Legal watchdogs say President Obama and his Chicago minions are up to their necks in the Blago corruption case. [...]"  Related:  Obama White House Doesn't Want Blagojevich Retrial   "On Thursday, Federal Judge James Zagel said he would set a retrial date for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich during the first week of January 2011. The trial wouldn't begin any earlier than Jan. 4, Judge Zagel said, but he didn't set a specific date. Prosecutors had asked for an earlier date, but the judge said he wanted to avoid scheduling conflicts over the holidays. [...]"   

Obama Scrubs White House Website of Climate Change Promises, Media Mum [08/27/10] "Despite the fact that President Obama made Cap and Trade and other green policy plans a focal point of his early days in office — not to mention his campaign for president — the White House has quietly scrubbed from its official website many of Obama’s promises and green initiatives.   [...]"    

The Collapse of the Left/Right Paradigm: "We've Got One That Can See" [08/24/10] [1:33] "Proof that kool-aid is wearing off. People were sold the media-hyped Obama as Change for the better [...]"  

Covert Operations: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama [08/24/10] "David H. Koch in 1996. He and his brother Charles are lifelong libertarians and have quietly given more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes. [...]"    

More Obama Lies Exposed - The Chicago Technique [08/23/10] "Rod Blagojevich, is the former Illinois Governor who tried to sell Obama's seat in Congress. Obama was asked by the press if he had ever met Gov. Blagojevich. Barack Obama: "I only saw Rod Blagojevich one time ... and that was in the stands and from a distance at a Chicago Bears Football Game." See Rod Blagojevich, Barack Obama, and Richard Daley during a rally in Chicago , April 16, 2007, and other photos and situations(Photo Reuters) [...]"    

Michelle 'Obama' Admits Kenya is Barack Hussein Obama's Home Country [08/22/10] [0:31]  

"Obama warns of 'corporate takeover'" [08/21/10] "U.S. President Barack Obama Saturday warned of a "corporate takeover" of democracy and said Republicans want the public kept "in the dark" on campaign funding. [...]"  Note: As a CIA stooge, he aids and abets corporate takeover ... then 'warns' about it ... he's clearly in some personal delusional 'movie' where there are no contradictions and vacations are all that matter.  

Obama Bans More than 100,000 American-Made Rifles [08/21/10] "According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and 1941. As rifles, they are especially well-suited to community defense in an emergency,  [...]"   

"Israel, Big Money and Obama" [08/20/10] "According to a recently published article in The Atlantic, Israeli general Amos Yadlin traveled to Chicago in an effort to enlist Crown’s help in convincing the administration to attack Iran. White House visitor logs show that Crown did in fact visit the White House in April of this year to meet with Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu applied “hidden pressure” on Obama which came “from Chicago.”   When asked about this report, Crown denied only that Yadlin traveled to Chicago. He confirmed that the two spoke and were in agreement about wanting the United States to attack Iran. “ ‘I support the president,” Crown said. ‘But I wish [administration officials] were a little more outgoing in the way they have talked. I would feel more comfortable if I knew that they had the will to use military force, as a last resort. You cannot threaten someone as a bluff. There has to be a will to do it.’ ” [...]"  Note:  CIA, the mob and the Pentagon run Congress and the USA for Israel.

Barack Obama conclusively outed as CIA creation [08/19/10] "Far from being the mere ‘son of a goat herder’ (as he deceptively paraded during and even before his candidacy), strong evidence has emerged that President Barack Obama is the product of the intelligence community. Investigative reporter and former NSA employee Wayne Madsen has put together an extensive three-part (and growing) series with conclusive proof and documentation that Barack Obama Sr., Stanley Ann Dunham, Lolo Soetoro and President Barack Obama himself all hold deep ties to the CIA and larger intelligence community. And that’s just the beginning. After his election, President Obama quickly moved to seal off his records via an executive order. Now, after two years of hints and clues, there is substantial information to demonstrate that what Obama has omitted is that his rare rise to power can only be explained by his intelligence roots. However, this is more than the story of one man or his family. There is a long-term strategic plan to recruit promising candidates into intelligence and steer these individuals and their families into positions of influence and power. Consider that it is now declassified former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was recruited into MI5 before becoming a labour leader, or that George H. W. Bush not only became CIA director in 1976 but had a deeper past in the organization. While we may never know many pertinent details about these matters, one thing that is certain is that the American people have never been told the truth about who holds the real power, nor who this president– and likely many others– really is. Thus, we urge everyone to read Wayne Madsen’s deep report and seek the truth for yourself. [...]"  Note:  Investigative journalist Wayne Madsen is scheduled to appear live on the Alex Jones Show AUGUST 19 at 1 PM EST / 12 NOON CST, to reveal his groundbreaking series on Barack Obama’s true origins.  Related:  Is Barack Obama A Manchurian Candidate?  "..Far from being the mere ‘son of a goat herder’ (as he deceptively paraded during and even before his candidacy), strong evidence has emerged that President Barack Obama is the product of the intelligence community. Investigative reporter and former NSA employee Wayne Madsen has put together an extensive three-part (and growing) series with conclusive proof and documentation that Barack Obama Sr., Stanley Ann Dunham, Lolo Soetoro and President Barack Obama himself all hold deep ties to the CIA and larger intelligence community. And that’s just the beginning... [...]" Obama: All In The Company – Part I  By Wayne Madsen | Obama: All In The Company – Part I I |  Obama: All In The Company – Part III

'Obama' Continues Pushing Absurd College Agenda [08/18/10] "Americans who weren't fooled by the slick advertising and deceptive posturing of his campaign realized that Barack Obama was going to be a dogmatic authoritarian in office. One thing you can count on with such people is that they won't abandon their pet ideas, no matter the evidence against them. Another such idea is his idea that the United States is "falling behind" other nations with regard to college graduation rates, and it's necessary for us to regain "leadership." Obama first raised that idea back in February 2009, and on August 9 of this year, he said exactly the same thing in a speech at the University of Texas. "In a single generation, we've fallen from first place to 12th place in college graduation rates for young adults," Obama said, a situation he declared to be "unacceptable." To deal with this supposed problem, he has set a national goal of "retaking the lead" by 2020 -- that is, having "a higher share of graduates than any other nation on Earth." Congress has already given Obama the policies he wants to reach that goal, by increasing Pell Grants and making it easier for students to repay their federal loans. I have argued elsewhere that those changes will have bad consequences; here, I'll show that the core idea, that the country needs more college graduates, is nonsensical. [...]"   Related: Many students not prepared for college  "Fewer than 25 percent of 2010 U.S. high school graduates who took the ACT readiness exam have the skills to pass beginning college courses, test results show. [...]"   

Arizona Republicans Sue 'Obama', Calling Health Care Reforms Unconstitutional [08/16/10] "Twenty-nine of Arizona's state and federal lawmakers - all Republicans - sued President Obama and the Department of Health and Human Services, claiming the president's health-care reform program is unconstitutional. The Republicans claim that the "federal government does not have the constitutional power to mandate that ... American citizens purchase health insurance, much less surrender their medical privacy and autonomy, as a condition of living in the United States." [...]"  

US Politics: The stunning decline of 'Barack Obama': 10 key reasons why the ' Obama' presidency is in meltdown [08/14/10] "The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House.  [...]" 

Obama signs law to militarize US-Mexico border [08/14/10] "In a further calculated turn to the right, President Barack Obama signed into law legislation aimed at militarizing the US-Mexico border and stepping up the persecution of undocumented workers. The legislation allocates $32 million for the deployment of more Predator drone aircraft to conduct spy flights over the border. Additional money will go to set up military style bases in the border area and to assist local police agencies. The Obama administration had already ordered 1,500 National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border. These units should all be in place within the next weeks. [...]"    Related:  Drug Cartel Violence Is Coming To The Streets of America  |  Border Patrol sees spike in suicides   

 U.S. Politics: White House: Some ‘crazy’ liberal critics of Obama ‘need to be drug tested’ [08/11/10] "The White House is sparing no punches to some of its critics on the "professional left," describing them as insatiable and unrealistic. In an interview with Sam Youngman of The Hill published Tuesday morning, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs unleashed a series of forceful attacks on some unnamed progressive critics of President Barack Obama. "I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested," Gibbs said. "I mean, it’s crazy." The paper described the president's spokesman as "simmering with anger" and "in furious disbelief" over some of Obama's liberal detractors, from whom he has faced regular criticism for not pushing a progressive agenda more authoritatively. “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon," Gibbs retorted. "That’s not reality.” [...]"  Note:  Gibbs wouldn't know 'reality' outside his little sphere if he fell over it. Related:  Gibbs Up for Reinvention? Note: "He’s been the Obama administration’s press mouthpiece for nearly two years now, but speculation has it that Robert Gibbs could be heading for a career shift. Might that have something to do with his recent truth-telling tear?" 

 Commentary: The Obsolescence of 'Barack Obama'  [08/11/10] "The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it. Not long ago Barack Obama, for those who were spellbound by him, had the stylishness of JFK and the historic mission of FDR riding to the nation's rescue. Now it is to Lyndon B. Johnson's unhappy presidency that Democratic strategist Robert Shrum compares the stewardship of Mr. Obama. Johnson, wrote Mr. Shrum in the Week magazine last month, never "sustained an emotional link with the American people" and chose to escalate a war that "forced his abdication as president." A broken link with the public, and a war in Afghanistan he neither embraces and sells to his party nor abandons—this is a time of puzzlement for President Obama. His fall from political grace has been as swift as his rise a handful of years ago. He had been hot political property in 2006 and, of course, in 2008. But now he will campaign for his party's 2010 candidates from afar, holding fund raisers but not hitting the campaign trail in most of the contested races. Those mass rallies of Obama frenzy are surely of the past.  [...]"  Related: "Obama Vs. Obama: Afghanistan Debate Video" Video clip [4:55]  Note: This goes to show you just how irrelevant the Obama/Barry political character is, to anything. A useless pawn with a tinge of megalomania and narcissism ... 

Commentary: Why Obama is Subjected To Blackmails – Wayne Madsen [08/10/10] "Obama and Emanuel: members of same gay bath house club in Chicago President Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago’s gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city. [...]"  

Commentary: Barry Soetoro AKA Barack Obama’s Political Dynasty Crashes And Burns  [08/10/10] "While Barry Soetoro’s family lavish themselves at a luxury Spanish resort amidst deepening economic turmoil, back home Obama’s political dynasty crashes and burns as his approval ratings plunge to a record low of 41 per cent with less than a few months to go before the October midterm elections. Obama has come under widespread criticism for preaching austerity and financial discipline even as his wife Michelle suns herself at an opulent resort in the Costa del Sol region while parading around in expensive designer clothing. As the economy worsens and top financial experts openly talk of American entering a second great depression, Obama’s approval ratings continue to head south in a hurry. As we exposed in the Obama Deception, the manufactured populist euphoria behind the crowning of Soetoro was always likely to rapidly deflate once it became apparent that Obama was the ultimate puppet, a vacuous servant of the bankers and the elite to whom he owes his entire political dynasty. Just 41 per cent approved of the way Obama was handling the job in a recent USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, the lowest figure since Soetoro took office in January 2009.
Similarly, questions over Soetoro’s dubious origins have not abated. According to a recent CNN poll, 43 per cent of Americans think Obama was definitely or probably not born in the United States. For someone whose political career is so obviously sinking out of sight, Obama seems remarkably relaxed about it, an ominous portend that the people who pull his strings have lined up a helpful pre-election surprise as a means of rallying the American people back around their fallen commander in chief. On one side of the scale, some are speculating that Obama could announce a gigantic bailout of Main Street in the form of debt relief for millions of Americans whose homes are now worth less than their mortgages. This promised giveaway would likely reinvigorate support for Obama from the millions of gullible idiots who voted for him in the first place while proclaiming that all their problems would be solved by a Christ-like Obama who would pay their mortgage and gas bills. [...]"  Related: Obama’s CIA Pedigree |  President Obama’s real name “Barry Soetoro” tops Google Trends  

Commentary: "Both Obama's Are Now Being Ridiculed for Their Insane Antics" [08/07/10] "Both Michelle and Barack Obama are coming under increasing public ridicule for their insane behavior. As Michelle and her 40 "close friends" gallivant around the beaches and shops of Marbella, Spain, the media continue to slap the First Lady for her abomidable behavior, in the face of the suffering of the vast majority of Americans. [...]"   

 Commentary: "Americans aren't buying Obama's unconstitutional health care law" [08/07/10] "Supporters of the recently passed healthcare law championed by President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid must be getting pretty nervous. It seems everywhere they turn someone is seriously objecting to the scope of the healthcare law. First, House Democrats admitted that the IRS 1099 reporting provision included in the healthcare bill (even though it has nothing to do with healthcare and will be a nightmare for small business owners) was ill-conceived and should be repealed.  Then a federal judge decided to allow the state of Virginia’s challenge to the constitutionality of the new healthcare law to go forward, despite the Obama Administration having asked the court to dismiss the case. And on Tuesday, an overwhelming number of Missourians voted against the healthcare law, specifically objecting to the individual mandate in the law. Today, the National Federation of Independent Business, along with 20 states, will file their response to the government’s motion to dismiss their suit to overturn the healthcare law. We fully expect to move forward with our case, like Virginia. The federal government’s attempt to defend the constitutionality of the individual mandate, which forces Americans to purchase health insurance whether they want to or not, is weak. With no legal precedence to rely on, they have conveniently re-labeled the controversial individual mandate as a tax, despite repeated assurances from the president himself during the legislative debate that the mandate is absolutely not a tax. The president has publicly changed his position so drastically and now calls the individual mandate a tax because he knows Congress does not have the authority to tell us what products we must purchase simply because we are alive. The individual mandate, if upheld in the courts under the Commerce Clause, would give Congress top-down authority to dictate virtually every aspect of Americans’ lives, as consumers and producers, and would transform our federal government from one of limited, enumerated powers into one of limitless authority over states and their citizens. No court ever has ever upheld so sweeping an assertion of federal power. The government asserts that not having insurance is reachable under the commerce power because it is an ‘economic decision.’ But a decision is purely a mental process which may, or may not, result in activity (economic or otherwise). The federal government does not have the authority to regulate an individual decision’s to do nothing. If they did, then they could force us to purchase any product they want. This infinite commerce power, that the government argues they have, finds no support in any case decision. [...]"  Related: Dean: Individual Mandate Will Be Removed From Health Care Reform

Obamacare Rejected in MO: Prop C passes overwhelmingly [08/04/10] "Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March. [...]"    

Obama Information Czar Outlined Plan For Government To Infiltrate Conspiracy Groups [08/04/10] "Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, outlined a plan for the government to infiltrate conspiracy groups in order to undermine them via postings on chat rooms and social networks [...]" 

Obama has been Warned that Israel May Bomb Iran: Memorandum to the President from former Intelligence Officials [08/3/10] " We write to alert you to the likelihood that Israel will attack Iran as early as this month. This would likely lead to a wider war. Israel's leaders would calculate that once the battle is joined, it will be politically untenable for you to give anything less than unstinting support to Israel, no matter how the war started, and that U.S. troops and weaponry would flow freely. Wider war could eventually result in destruction of the state of Israel. This can be stopped, but only if you move quickly to pre-empt an Israeli attack by publicly condemning such a move before it happens. We believe that comments by senior American officials, you included, reflect misplaced trust in Israeli Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. Actually, the phrasing itself can be revealing, as when CIA Director Panetta implied cavalierly that Washington leaves it up to the Israelis to decide whether and when to attack Iran, and how much "room" to give to the diplomatic effort. [...]"    

MSM: "Obamacare Only Looks Worse Upon Further Review" [08/02/10] "One of the more illuminating remarks during the health-care debate in Congress came when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told an audience that Democrats would “pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it, away from the fog of controversy.”  That remark captured the truth that, while many Americans have a vague sense that something bad is happening to their health care, few if any understand exactly what the law does. To fill this vacuum, Representative Kevin Brady of Texas, the top House Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, asked his staff to prepare a study of the law, including a flow chart that illustrates how the major provisions will work.  [...]"   

National Ocean Council [07/29/10] "Thirty states will be encroached upon by Obama's Executive Order establishing the National Ocean Council for control over America's oceans,   coastlines and the Great Lakes. Under this new council, states' coastal jurisdictions will be subject to the United Nations' Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST) in this UN Agenda 21 program. America'a oceans and coastlines will be broken into 9 regions that include the North East, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, the Gulf Coast, West Coast, the Great Lakes, Alaska, the Pacific Islands (including Hawaii) and the Caribbean. Because of the decades of difficulty that the collectivists have had trying to ratify the Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST), Obama is sneaking it in through the back door, by way of this Executive Order establishing the Council. Because LOST is a treaty, Obama's Executive Order is not Constitutional as treaty ratification requires 2/3 approval from the Senate. Michael Shaw said that the Agenda 21 Convention on Biodiversity treaty of 1992 failed to pass Congress so it was executed through soft law and administratively on local levels, and Obama's Executive Order is a similar soft law tactic to enact the LOST treaty. In fact, our Constitutional form of government is being completely destroyed because buried in the CLEAR Act (HR 3534) there is a provision for a new council to oversee the outer continental shelf- it appears that this Regional Outer Shelf Council will be part of the National Ocean Council. This means that if Congress makes the CLEAR Act into law, then the implementation of the UN Law Of Sea Treaty, as part of the National Ocean Council's agenda, will be "ratified" in a convoluted and stealth manner, in full opposition to the Constitution and its intent. [...]" Related: Obama Hands U.S. Waters to WWF   "With his Executive Order, "Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes," issued on July 19, President Obama has ordered that management of U.S. waters be carried out according to the fascist environmentalist criteria demanded by the British Crown's genocidal WWF. The Executive Order, in fact, was hailed by the WWF-U.S. [...]"  

Obama White House, DNC in 'Suicide Pact' To Oust Rangel [07/29/10] "According to a senior Washington, D.C. source, the Obama White House, in league with the DNC and House Democratic leaders, are going berserk to force Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), one of the last of the FDR Democrats left in Congress, to resign. The gang-up strategy to oust Rangel is a three-pronged effort: [...]"  

"Pastor Manning Calls For Congress to Have Obama Arrested" [07/26/10] [8:32]   "Dr. James David Manning calls for Congress to arrest Mr. Obama. Recorded on 21 June 2010. Distributed by Tubemogul. [...]"   

Obama Gang in Covert Drive for War with Iran—An EIR Exclusive on the British Sponsorship [07/26/10] "The Obama Administration and a British imperial agency in the guise of a global law firm, with partners in Obama's support circle in Chicago, are using propaganda and intimidation to push for war with Iran, an EIR investigation has found. [...]"   

Obama Gets Another Kick in the Teeth, From Apollo Astronauts and Senate Appropriators [07/22/10] "In a matter of minutes on Wednesday morning, the Senate Subcommittee on Appropriations with oversight over the NASA budget, approved, with only minor changes, the authorization bill passed by the full Senate Commerce Committee on July 15. [...]"  

DHS Won't Say What the Rules Are [07/22/10] "The Department of Homeland Security has tightened the screws on the H-1B visa process for specialty occupations, refusing and revoking far more applications, and scheduling 25,000 worksite inspections this year. But DHS has provided a "near vacuum of publicly available information" on how to comply with this "heightened scrutiny," and didn't even provide its "Compliance Review Worksheet" in a legally required request for comments on it, the American Immigration Lawyers Association claims in Federal Court. [...]"  Note: More from the government that has become a vacuum. 

Obama Deception Back Up On The Net In Full Version [07/19/10] [114:00] "The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order's plans. and only by exposing the con can we help to save freedom in America. The Obama Deception is not about Left or Right: it's about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda, and how his initial appointments and actions prove he serves the corporate oligarchs, not the American people.  [...]" Censorship Alert: Obama Deception Video 'Illegally Removed' from You Tube [07/18/10] [7:11]   Note: I made an inquiry as to when they intend on re-loading their videos to YouTube, since they have changed their passwords. Someone HAD to ask the question. Instead of whining that it's gone, they could simply put these things back up. (As you can see, they did) 12-Part Version on YouTube

Obama postures on unemployment benefits while defending Wall Street [07/19/10] "In his Saturday radio and Internet speech, US President Barack Obama seized on the opposition of Senate Republicans to an extension of jobless benefits to strike a false and demagogic pose as " the defender of the unemployed". Pretending a degree of empathy for the plight of the unemployed, Obama noted that of the more than two million who have lost benefits, “For many, it was the only way to make ends meet while searching for work—the only way to cover rent, utilities, even food.” He criticized suggestions that jobless benefits were a “disincentive” to find work, saying, “I haven’t met any Americans who would rather have an unemployment check than a meaningful job that lets you provide for your family.” [...] The most grotesque posturing came in the conclusion of Obama’s speech, when he criticized the Republicans for citing the federal budget deficit as the reason to oppose extended benefits. “So after years of championing policies that turned a record surplus into a massive deficit, including a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans,” he declared, “they’ve finally decided to make their stand on the backs of the unemployed.” But Obama has spent the first 18 months of his administration pushing through a series of major policy initiatives crafted precisely to serve the interests of “the wealthiest Americans.” [...] Obama’s embrace of populist demagogy is a transparent effort to position the Democrats for the upcoming congressional elections, under conditions where persistent long-term unemployment has discredited his administration and allowed the Republicans to posture, with equal falsity, as advocates of “job creation.” One news analysis described this cynical contest as follows: “As the election approaches, each party is battling to depict the other as more heartless.”  The disputes between the Democrats and Republicans, however bitter rhetorically, are arguments over what tactics and methods can best be used to serve the interests of the ruling elite. Both parties defend the profit system and the interests of the financial aristocracy, which are completely incompatible with the needs of working people. Under conditions of the deepest slump since the Great Depression, the US government cannot carry out even the minimal measures to alleviate mass suffering that were commonplace in past recessions. According to one study, in previous recessions since World War II, extended unemployment benefits continued for an average of 23 months after the unemployment rate reached its peak. In the current slump, the peak official jobless rate was reached eight months ago—assuming that official unemployment figures accurately reflect reality—and extended benefits have already been cut off. And there is good reason to believe that the unemployment rate will resume its upward march in coming months, with the social “safety net” for the unemployed entirely shredded."[...] "    

Commentary: Obama garners little credit for sweeping change [07/19/10] "Not even President Barack Obama's sworn political foes would dispute his claims to have forged sweeping political change -- their cries for repeal of his historic new laws are proof of that. [...]"  Related: Obama Blames Everyone But Himself for His Failure  "According to Democratic Party sources close to the Obama White House, the President and his crew of Chicago gang advisors are totally obsessed with the right-wing propaganda assaults, and read every word that comes out, and watch every snipe that appears on Fox TV [... 

Commentary: Obama Flaunts His Insanity: Freaks Over U.S. Chamber Attack  [07/17/10] "With practically every action, President Barack Obama is demonstrating that he is, indeed, in a Hitler-in- the-bunker mode. Sources close to the White House have reported that the President went absolutely berserk over an open letter to him, issued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, assailing the Administration for failing to do anything to promote jobs, at a time when this is the number one problem on the minds of the vast majority of Americans. The public rebuke letter was released July 14, the same day that the Chamber held a high-profile jobs summit, where not a single Obama Administration representative was present. At the last moment, according to a Washington Post account, the White House requested that Valerie Jarrett be given a prominent speaking slot at the event, right after the keynote by Chamber CEO Thomas Donohue. The request was rejected, outright. Jarrett complained in an interview with the Bloomberg News, "We would have loved to have gone and participated. We were not invited. In fact, we were told not to come."  In an absolutely insane tit-for-tat response, the White House hastily arranged its own series of pow-wows for the President on the same day—with Warren Buffett, former President Bill Clinton, and a group of business executives. The White House also released a totally fabricated report, claiming that the stimulus had created a massive number of jobs. The letter from the Chamber of Commerce only served to underscore that the only true viable solution to this systemic collapse is that proposed by Lyndon LaRouche—starting with the restoration of Glass-Steagall. The Chamber of Commerce letter was full of free-market platitudes, calls for tax cuts, and lip service to the need to create jobs and to revive infrastructure investment—through public-private partnerships.   LaRouche's own comment on the Obama/Chamber of Commerce dust-up and the President's insane behavior was: "Obama is only concerned about his own, personal situation. He is insane. And the proposals put forward by the Chamber of Commerce are, in their own right, insane. Their policies are insane, under this current crisis. But Obama is personally nuts. He has no capacity to do anything. He is truly Hitler in the bunker. If you avoid facing that reality—that the President has gone absolutely insane—you are making a grave strategic miscalculation."

Top Clinton Official: "Only A Terror Attack Can Save Obama"  Paul Joseph Watson [07/14/10] "A former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton says that the only thing which can rescue Barack Obama’s increasingly tenuous grip on power as his approval figures continue to plunge is a terror attack on the scale of Oklahoma City or 9/11, another startling reminder that such events only ever serve to benefit those in authority. Buried in a Financial Times article about Obama’s “growing credibility crisis” and fears on behalf of Democrats that they could lose not only the White House but also the Senate to Republicans, Bilderberger Robert Shapiro makes it clear that Obama is relying on an October surprise in the form of a terror attack to rescue his presidency. [...] "  Note:  I am not sure how well well the 'false flag' idea is working, any more. Each false flag episode episode (Pearl Harbor, 9/11, 7/7, etc) was created to be potentially unforgettable, however, with time people have caught on, and with time 'the powers that be' have become more mentally detached, and delusional within their psychopathy, failing to realize that they always fail to obscure what they've done (because they believe they can) that always points to the "false flag", and that a good segment of the population of the planet is actively looking for connections with events, people, places and dates, and they KNOW what's going on. Last year sometime, there were reports that segments of the military were (finally) aware that the Mossad had a significant part to play in the twin towers 911 scenario. Of course, the more seasoned observers knew it almost immediately ... the sloppy clues ... so many events and people rotating around Israelis .. it was obvious. Sequentials like to be able to predict, control and manipulate, and co-opt the experiences of others, running roughshod over individuals no matter what the context of their lives is. The BP Gulf fiasco has so many interesting aspects to it ... it was clearly allowed to happen. Yet, if this was supposed to be a '911-scale' event (although with evacuation of millions in five Gulf states, and more, it may grow to be), it's not 'working' very well. We know there are other very 'serious' things coming up. It is a different astrological climate as well, and the cultural 'timing' is different than it was in 2001. A decade of social bullshit has elapsed since then, and the psyche of American society has been wearily 'dulled', and the actions of the politicians, bankers, and others are now much more transparent. Ironically, it's the sequentials in society who have the most angst over what's happening (because they don't have the depth that simultaneous incarnations have), as they can only think inside a perspective which demands that life goes on forever on Earth. The completely adolescent mental structure in all Earth societies, with all the 'conquering', wealth acquisition and other sequential penchants, is not one that could form the basis for a 'mature and viable civilization', especially when interaction other worlds is heavily restricted by game constraints. This civilization was always meant to be temporary, because it's tied in with the departure of individuals from the galaxy game. The fact that this planet could not be totally sequentialized will always be a mystery to the sequentials, who will always be frustrated 'because they didn't think of everything', again. 

Summer sizzle: Obamacare could be repealed before election [07/14/10] "News that a discharge petition in the House of Representatives has gathered half the names necessary to force a vote repealing Obamacare has spurred an online petition campaign to rally the public to the cause. "Who would have thought we might have a chance to repeal Obamacare – this term?" exclaimed Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, in response to the plan by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. "This movement has already gained half the support it needs in the House of Representatives. Now it's time for the public to turn up the pressure on the other half." Farah has created a public petition drive in support of King's measure. He hopes to use the database of new names to launch a massive new "pink slips"–style campaign to persuade 218 House members to get on board. The "pink slips" campaign last delivered nearly 10 million messages to members of the House and Senate – including protests of the impending vote on health care.  [...]"    

Obama's policy time bombs [07/12/10] "President Barack Obama has long boasted about the transformative change he’s bringing to the country. But by the time those reforms finally arrive, he could be long gone from the White House. Some of Obama’s biggest promises won’t go into effect until long after his first term — and in some cases, well past a second. In fact, buried deep within some of the Democrats’ most significant reform bills are dozens of policy time bombs set to blow at more politically convenient times.  [...]"   Related: "Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick" "A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage to unchecked corporate greed and abuse. The simple truth, that single-payer nonprofit health care for all Americans would dramatically reduce costs and save lives, that the for-profit health care system is the problem and must be destroyed, is censored out of the public debate by a media that relies on these corporations as major advertisers and sponsors, as well as a morally bankrupt Democratic Party that is as bought off by corporations as the Republicans.   The 2,000-page piece of legislation, according to figures compiled by Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP), will leave at least 23 million people without insurance, a figure that translates into an estimated 23,000 unnecessary deaths a year among people who cannot afford care. It will permit prices to climb so that many of us will soon be paying close to 10 percent of our annual income to buy commercial health insurance, although this coverage will only pay for about 70 percent of our medical expenses. Those who become seriously ill, lose their incomes and cannot pay skyrocketing premiums will be denied coverage. And at least $447 billion in taxpayer subsidies will now be handed to insurance firms. We will be forced by law to buy their defective products. There is no check in the new legislation to halt rising health care costs. The elderly can be charged three times the rates provided to the young. Companies with predominantly female work forces can be charged higher gender-based rates. The dizzying array of technical loopholes in the bill—written in by armies of insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyists—means that these companies, which profit off human sickness, suffering and death, can continue their grim game of trading away human life for money. “They named this legislation the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and as the tradition of this nation goes, any words they put into the name of a piece of legislation means the opposite,” said single-payer activist Dr. Margaret Flowers when I heard her and Helen Redmond dissect the legislation in Chicago at the Socialism 2010 Conference last month. “It neither protects patients nor leads to affordable care.” [...]"  Note: Gee, they'll have to kill Nancy Pelosi, just to see what's inside .... a roaring sequential bitch from the nether regions ... 

Obama’s “jobs program”: Poverty wages and mass unemployment [07/11/10] "The real unemployment rate in the US is above 20 percent. Long-term joblessness is at a post-war high. Millions of youth have no prospect of finding work. Home values—the major source of wealth for most families—continue to fall. Foreclosures, homelessness, hunger, utility shutoffs and poverty are soaring. Schools, parks and museums are being closed, and what remains of a social safety net is being shredded. Obama insinuated that the working class has been living beyond its means. In fact, working class living standards in the US have been stagnant or declining for the past 40 years. It is the financial aristocracy that has been on a consumption binge based on its plundering of the national wealth. [...]"   

 UK: Copying the NHS is the last thing the US should do [07/11/10] The future health care in both countries must involve a mix of state and private provision, says Janet Daley. Bad idea: Barack Obama has appointed a man as head of the American public healthcare programmes who professes a passion for some of the most discredited features of our NHS" [...]"  

Obama touts $400M loan to solar company run by corrupt congressman’s nephew [07/11/10] "...Russell Kanjorski, the vice president for marketing at Abound Solar, was one of the principals in another energy company in northeast Pennsylvania, called Cornerstone Technologies LLC, which attracted $9 million in federal grants before it halted operations in 2003 and later filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. As reported by the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, “Cornerstone reported $14,100 in assets compared with $1.34 million in debt” in its bankruptcy filing. The $9 million in federal grants to Cornerstone were earmarked by Kanjorski’s uncle, Representative Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises. [...]"    

Obama bypasses Senate for new Medicare chief [07/08/10] "President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid.  The decision to use a so-called recess appointment to install Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services drew immediate fire from the GOP. Republicans have raised concerns about Berwick’s views on rationing of care and other matters and said it was wrong for Obama to go around the normal Senate confirmation process. That view was echoed by a key Democratic committee chairman, although the recess appointment is a tool used by presidents of both parties. [...]  Also appointed Wednesday were:  Philip E. Coyle III as associate director for national security and international affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Joshua Gotbaum as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation."  

Commentary: Mayberry Machiavelli's: Obama Political Team Handcuffing Recovery [07/07/10] "Today, a new band of Mayberry Machiavellis has gained control, counseling President Obama to ignore the advice of his economic team and press forward with deficit reduction ahead of job creation. Senior White House adviser David Axelrod told the New York Times recently that "it's my job to report what the public mood is." The public mood, said Axelrod, is anti-spending and anti-deficit and so the smart politics is to alleviate those concerns. "I've made the point that as a matter of policy and a matter of politics that we need to focus on this, and the president certainly agrees with that," said Axelrod of the deficit hawkery that the administration has engaged in over the last several months. It's an odd political strategy because Axelrod knows that if it succeeds, it will be both bad policy and bad politics. He said as much when asked about the pressure from economic advisers to focus on stimulus and job creation. "I'm very much allied with the economic group, because even as a political matter it would be very shortsighted to take steps that would send us backward," he said. [...]"   

Obama announces nearly $2 billion in contracts for solar energy companies [07/04/10] "US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday the awarding of nearly two billion dollars to two solar energy companies that have agreed to build new power plants in the United States, creating thousands of new jobs.  "We're going to keep fighting to advance our recovery," Obama said in his weekly radio address. "And we're going to keep competing aggressively to make sure the jobs and industries of the future are taking root right here in America."  One of the companies, Abengoa Solar, has agreed to build one of the largest solar plants in the world in Arizona, which will create about 1,600 construction jobs. When completed, this plant will provide enough clean energy to power 70,000 homes.  The other company, Abound Solar Manufacturing, is building two new plants, one in Colorado and one in Indiana.  These projects will create more than 2,000 construction jobs, and over 1,500 permanent jobs as the plants produce millions of solar panels each year, according to White House officials. [...]"  Note:  This will never get built. There is not enough time or impetus left. 

'Obama warns Erdogan international Gaza flotilla probe bad for Turkey' [07/04/10] "United States President Barak Obama warned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that an international probe into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla could have negative consequences for Turkey, British Arabic-language daily al-Hayat reported Saturday. [...]" 

Obama Calls for Pentagon "Civilian Component" [07/02/10] "Once again, Obama has called for a civilian component to work with the Pentagon. ... Speaking at a town hall event in Racine, Wisconsin, on July 31 Obama said U.S. troops are carrying too much of the burden in Iraq and Afghanistan and doing too many things that are more appropriate for civilians, such as building schools and setting up justice systems, according to the Associated Press. He called for a civilian component as large as the military. ... On the campaign trail in 2008, Obama called for a civilian national security force double the size of the Peace Corps and nearly quadruple the size of AmeriCorps and the size of the nation’s military. “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded,” Obama said in Colorado Springs on July 2, 2008. [...]"    Related: Obama: ‘Civilian expeditionary force’ can aid wearied troops "US soldiers in combat could use an assist from a civilian workforce while trying to rebuild war-torn nations, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.  Speaking at a town hall in Racine, Wisconsin, Obama said his administration plans to deploy a "civilian expeditionary force" to Afghanistan and Iraq to help overburdened military troops build infrastructure. [...]"  Note: Huge construction contracts, no doubt to be given to KBR and Halliburton. 

Commentary: Obama Is Deliberately Protracting Gulf Oil Disaster [06/30/10] "If you were the President of the United States and you see that Gulf wildlife are dying and fishermen and tourist businesses are suffering from the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, wouldn’t you do EVERYTHING humanly possible to help? I would. I would be down on the beach with my sleeves rolled up to help with the cleanup, picking up tarballs and cleaning off oil from seabirds.  Instead, Obama has turned down 13 countries’ offers to help clean up the BP oil spill. The Dutch were the first to offer assistance that, if accepted, would have cleaned up the spill in a matter of weeks. Frustrated by the federal government’s inaction and BP’s ineffectiveness, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal took action and got oil-fighting vacuum barges to remove the oil. But then the Coast Guard shut down all 16 barges last Wednesday, claiming their operations needed to be halted until inspections and certifications could be done.  In other words, the situation as it stands now is as follows: [...]"  

Obama and Cameron pledge to defend BP profits [06/30/10] "Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron met over the weekend to discuss the BP oil spill and pledged to defend the interests of the oil giant. [...]"  

Richard Rubenstein, PhD. Harvard: "Obama Most Radical US President ever"  [06/29/10] [7:08]  "Dr. Richard L. Rubinstein, Yale fellow, "Distinguished Professor of the Year", and Harvard Phd, states that president Obama's intention is to "correct the historical mistake of the creation of the state of Israel." Dr. Rubenstein states that president Obama due to his family heritage is extremely pro Muslim - to the point of "wanting to see the destruction of Israel." [...]"  Note:  Interesting video, which refers to a number of events since Obama was elected.

US Politics: Conservatives is now clamoring for the outright repeal of "Obamacare" [06/27/10] "The longer you look at it, the worse it smells.” That is how Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana, recently described America’s new health-reform law to an audience in Washington, DC. His opinion matters, and not just because he is a likely Republican contender for the presidential race in 2012. His words threw petrol on a bonfire, since a growing chorus of conservatives is now clamouring for the outright repeal of Obamacare.     Of course, Republican leaders in Congress have long detested the new law. Since its passage in March various bills—including a new one this month from Utah’s Senator Orrin Hatch, the American Liberty Restoration Act—have been introduced in both chambers with the aim of overturning the legislation. More than 20 states have also joined lawsuits that challenge the law’s “individual mandate”, the requirement that everyone should buy health insurance, as unconstitutional. Now, however, there are two new prongs to the attack, broadening the assault beyond the right. Many states are complaining about the costs of the new law’s provisions. And businesses are grousing that the administration is breaking its promises that existing employer- provided health coverage would be exempted from the onerous requirements being imposed on new health plans.[...]"  Note:  The bill has two aspects to it. Healthcare and also the establishment of intrusive social control infrastructures and bureaucracies, which is NOT something they are talking about. The old Nancy Pelosi "we have to pass it so you can see what's in it" mind set is very stupid, childish, and overtly deceptive.  

Video: Judge Andrew Napolitano – "Obama’s Impeachable Offenses Mount"  [06/26/10] 3 Video clips [45:00] Alex talks with judge Andrew Napolitano about the impeachable offenses committed by Obama since being in office, and if Obama will legalize 20 million "illegal aliens" with a stoke of a pen! Note: Alex Jones TV segments. 

Commentary: Obama's Socialist Agenda: Overwhelm the system [06/25/10] "... Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it. [...]"  Note:  Is 'Barack Obama' an American Mikhail Suslov?

Obama Bans Lobbyists From Advisory Panels [06/24/10] "Firming up a campaign promise to close the revolving door between government service and K Street lobbying firms, President Obama has ordered all executive departments and agencies to cease appointment of registered lobbyists to committees, boards and advisory councils. [...]"  

Obama Bows to the Queen To Save BP and Tear Up The Constitution [06/23/10] "According to senior U.S. intelligence sources, President Barack Obama's so-called "get tough on BP" posture was nothing but political cover, to conceal the fact that he had totally capitulated to pressure from London to bail out BP, as one of the anchors of the entire British Crown. According to one source, a gathering of top City of London oligarchs reached a unanimous consensus that BP had to be saved, at all costs. A delegation went to Prime Minister David Cameron, and assigned him to secure Obama's pledge to join the "save BP" bandwagon. [...]"  

President Is Not Trusted by the U.S. Military Institutions [06/23/10] "General Stanley McChrystal's Rolling Stone interview was no gaffe or flight forward. According to author Michael Hastings, he was given full access to the Afghan commander and his top aides, during a trip to Paris, that was greatly extended due to the volcanic ash disruption of air travel. At every moment, McChrystal confirmed that the discussions between the commander and his staff officers were "on the record," and McChrystal was fully aware that the article would be appearing in Rolling Stone magazine. [...]"    

Business leaders say Obama's economic policies stifle growth [06/23/10] "The chairman of the Business Roundtable, an association of top corporate executives that has been President Obama's closest ally in the business community, accused the president and Democratic lawmakers Tuesday of creating an "increasingly hostile environment for investment and job creation." Ivan G. Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon Communications, said that Democrats in Washington are pursuing tax increases, policy changes and regulatory actions that together threaten to dampen economic growth and "harm our ability . . . to grow private-sector jobs in the U.S." "In our judgment, we have reached a point where the negative effects of these policies are simply too significant to ignore," Seidenberg said in a lunchtime speech to the Economic Club of Washington. "By reaching into virtually every sector of economic life, government is injecting uncertainty into the marketplace and making it harder to raise capital and create new businesses."  [...]"    

Commentary: Activist Swanson Makes Case for Obama's Impeachment [06/21/10] "Activist David Swanson, who was a leader in the drive to impeach Bush and Cheney, in June 16 remarks to the Charlottesville, Va.-based Rutherford Institute, made a very powerful case for the impeachment of Barack Obama. The fact that he spoke at a conservative outfit is indicative of the broad base of the revolt against Obama. Swanson was the press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 Presidential campaign, and was a founder of After Downing Street, the movement to impeach Bush and Cheney over the British-directed fraudulent basis for the Iraq War. [...]"  Related: Obama Was Created by Our Failure to Impeach Bush by David Swanson "Another Bush innovation in law-making was his particular use of the Office of Legal Counsel memo, often a secret memo, used to blatantly reverse existing law. Lawyers working for Bush legalized aggressive war, warrantless spying, torture, and many other crimes by drafting secret memos declaring that things appearing to be illegal are actually legal. And Bush famously created a whole new use for something called a signing statement. He would sign a bill into law and then alter portions of it with a written statement. Obama swore he would not do such things, but now he has. For his first half year in office President Obama issued signing statements just like Bush's. Then he adopted a more dangerous policy. Rather than issue signing statements, which Republicans in Congress had suddenly discovered they objected to, Obama determined that he could silently refuse to comply with laws and rely on previous signing statements to make his case for him. If no previous statement fit the bill, he would ask the OLC for a memo. How many secret memos the OLC has drafted in the past year and a half we have no way of knowing.  [...]"  Fourth and Stealth “Branch” of Governance: Presidential Executive Orders  "To appreciate such an awesome lordship privilege, let’s examine some of its history. Conventional wisdom seems to agree that President Abraham Lincoln was the first president to assume Executive Orders [April 15, 1861: Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress] at the outbreak of the War Between the States, the Civil War, when he suspended habeas corpus [a person cannot be imprisoned arbitrarily without legal cause], which was a total disregard for Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution. [...]"  

Exposé:  Interior Department's New Oil Industry Watchdog Has No Energy Experience [06/21/10] "To overhaul federal oversight of offshore drilling, President Obama has turned to a Washington lawyer with a reputation for fixing broken government agencies, but little or no background with energy or environmental issues. [...]"  

Obama to order federal agencies to compile 'do not pay list' [06/19/10] "President Obama will order federal agencies Friday to establish a national "do not pay list" to prevent the government from paying benefits, contracts, grants and loans to ineligible people or organizations, according to senior administration officials.  [...]"   

Obama, the Supreme Court and Maher Arar: No Accountability for Torture [06/19/10] "I am one of Arar’s lawyers, along with others at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. In twenty-five years as a civil rights and human rights lawyer, I have never handled a case of more egregious abuse. US officials not only delivered Arar to Syrian security forces that they regularly accuse of systematic torture, but did everything in their power to ensure that Arar could not get to a court to challenge their actions while he was in their custody. [...]"    

 Commentary: Obama seeks “inflection point” on Gulf oil disaster [06/19/10]  "The past week saw the Obama administration, BP, and the US media seek out an “inflection point” in the Gulf oil blowout crisis, as chief White House adviser David Axlerod put it. Their aim was to somehow defuse growing popular anger over the disaster, while refurbishing the credibility of the government and stock value of BP. However, the exercise has underscored the subservience of the entire political establishment to the corporate and financial elite.   [...]"  

Obama Admin. Argues in Court That Individual Mandate Is a Tax [06/19/10] "In order to protect the new national health care law from legal challenges, the Obama administration has been forced to argue that the individual mandate represents a tax -- even though Obama himself argued the exact opposite while campaigning to pass the legislation. Late last night, the Obama Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the Florida-based lawsuit against the health care law, arguing that the court lacks jurisdiction and that the State of Florida and fellow plaintiffs haven't presented a claim for which the court can grant relief. [...]"   

Obama Warns Of 'Massive Layoffs Of Teachers, Police, And Firefighters' [06/14/10] "Congress allowed emergency health care assistance for unemployed workers to expire May 31, and seems unwilling to renew it despite pleas from President Barack Obama.  On Saturday night, the White House released a letter Obama sent to congressional leaders of both parties asking for nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments to fend off "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters" and to prevent a possible double-dip recession. "We are at a critical juncture on our nation's path to economic recovery," the president warned. "It is essential that we continue to explore additional measures to spur job creation and build momentum toward recovery, even as we establish a path to long-term fiscal discipline. At this critical moment, we cannot afford to slide backwards just as our recovery is taking hold." [...]"  Related: The Bailout of Public-Sector Unions Has Begun "President Obama is asking for $50 Billion to distribute to state and local governments to avoid public-sector employee layoffs. (And for "public-sector employees", you can read "SEIU and Teacher's Unions".) The GOP is sure to oppose it, but may not be able to stop a concerted Democratic push.  Bailing out the states (especially California) is going to take a lot more than a piddling $50 billion, of course. The first tranche is simply to establish precedent. The doors would then be thrown open to (potentially) a trillion dollars or more of taxpayer money -- TARP II would be a slush-fund for the various states who find themselves embarrassed for funds. At that point any pretense of federalism would be well and truly gone.  California's travails are well-known (I certainly harp on them enough on this site). But New York is almost as bad a shape; state officials are threatening to issue IOUs in place of cash for tax refunds. Many states in the so-called "Rust Belt" -- particularly Michigan and Pennsylvania -- are mired in financial misery as well. But the important thing to remember is that these dire financial situations are mainly of the states' own making: they overspent in good times, and made overgenerous promises to their employees without thinking of the impact those promises would have when the economy turned south. [...]"   

Investigations: Ballot Records Stolen During 2008 Elections Raise Suspicion [06/11/10] "Questions surrounding Obama’s birth certificate and his citizenship status continue to surface. There seems to be overwhelming evidence stacking up against the President of the United States. People like Reverend James David Manning and Phil Berg have been tirelessly exposing this illegal president any way they can.  Really this is a no brainier, it is very simple. Obama does not need any negative press, his popularity is already at an all time low. Obama has the ability to end these damaging allegations surrounding his birth certificate. If he was truly legit, he would present his birth certificate. End of story. Obama has yet another problem, his name is Tim Adams. Adams was the former elections clerk for Honolulu, and he claims that Obama was not born in Hawaii. “There is no birth certificate, not even a long form” Adams said. During 2008 Adams job was to verify voters identity when he worked for the city and county of Honolulu. During that time Adams had complete access to the social security database, state drivers license info, passport information, and the national crime computer. [...]"   

Obama Flashback: A Supreme Court Nominee With No Judicial Experience Requires Extreme Scrutiny [06/11/10] Video clip   

ACLU director ‘disgusted’ with Obama policies on civil liberties and national security issues [06/10/10] "... According to Politico, the White House declined to comment. [...]"  Note:  Naive and slow-witted people, for sure.

CIA Inspector General Position Vacant For 14 Months [06/09/10] "More than a year after the CIA's inspector general stepped down, frustrated members of Congress are urging the White House to fill the internal watchdog position that was central in uncovering abuses inside the spy agency. The pressure from Congress comes as the administration is contending with concerns about its intelligence structure. A spate of failed terrorist attacks since December exposed flaws in the intelligence community's oversight. The administration also faces congressional unease over its new nominee for national intelligence director, James R. Clapper, after the forced resignation of the previous director, Dennis Blair. The government's inspectors general root out corruption, fraud and other abuses that rarely surface otherwise. Because the CIA's activities are mostly conducted in secrecy, the position is of special value. "I am disturbed that it has not been filled up to this point," said Fred Hitz, who served as the CIA inspector general for eight years until 1998. "I am wondering what is going on." [...]" | Obama quietly declines to nominate CIA watchdog 

Exposé: Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel [06/07/10] Commentary:  "Over at The Next Right, the've pieced together some interesting connections about the White House's ties to British Petroleum, better known as the company currently polluting the Gulf of Mexico. We all know Obama was the biggest recipient of BP's campaign cash in Washington, but it seems BP's ties to the White House run even deeper. According to The Next Right, PR firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner "helped BP plan and evaluate its successful re-branding campaign, focusing the company's branding on energy solutions, including the development of solar and other renewable energy sources." The firm's Stanley Greenberg is married to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. There was something of a flap last year when it was pointed out that White house Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had been living in the couple's Capitol Hill townhouse, resulting in a lot of questions about whether or not this arrangement violated congressional ethical guidelines. Further, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee paid Greenberg's firm some $500,000 in 2006 and 2008 while Emanuel was living with Greenberg, and Emanuel was even in charge of the DCCC during the 2006 election cycle. And I'd be willing to bet that BP has paid Greenberg Quinlan Rosner a lot more than that. I doubt I'm the only one who thinks that BP's relationship with the White House might be a little too close for comfort."

Obama Names James Clapper to Head Spy Agencies [06/06/10] "Barack Obama announces James Clapper, right, as his choice to oversee the nation's 16 spy agencies as director of national intelligence, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 5, 2010. (AP) President Obama shrugged off warnings of a fight with Congress and chose a crusty, retired Air Force lieutenant general as his new intelligence chief, with a difficult assignment: complete the job of meshing the nation’s 16 spy agencies. Obama praised James Clapper, the Pentagon’s head of intelligence, as an espionage veteran who doesn’t mince words. If confirmed by the Senate, Clapper would replace retired Adm. Dennis Blair, Obama’s first director of national intelligence, who resigned last month after a rocky year and a half on the job. But lawmakers from both parties have voiced objections to Clapper, and his confirmation is far from certain. Obama said he wants senators to act quickly to confirm Clapper, saying the nomination “can’t fall victim to Washington politics.” [...]"  Note:  "Act quickly" -- another rush job .... all the more reason to stop, and look into this guy, his connections and predispositions.

Blagojevich corruption trial may touch 'Obama' [06/02/10] "Another possible wild card in Blagojevich's long-awaited trial that begins on Thursday is whether it will entangle Obama and his aides in Illinois' hurly-burly political theater.  The trial, which is expected to last up to four months, may expose discrepancies in how members of Obama's future administration characterized its contacts with Blagojevich after the November 2008 election. [...]"  Related: Blago Claims Obama Lied About Chicago Mob Linked Rosemont Casino License [06/02/10] " [...]"   

Commentary: Obama’s Grand Vizier Cunt-In-Chief to World: You Will Submit  Lew Rockwell [05/28/10] "Secretary of Statism Hillary Clinton…is there any doubt this woman is a neocon? Here’s a quote from her 5/27 speech: "Because ultimately, if nations do not believe that what the United States is trying to ask them to do or making the case for them to do is in their interest, that’s a nonstarter. Some nations have expanded the definition of what’s in their interest." [...]"  Note: In other words: The idea that a nation might not submit to U.S. hegemony is unacceptable, and their own national interest, as defined by themselves, is no excuse for not doing so. These people live in a dangerous dream-world movie. Time to shut off the projector, and that's happening, like a dirty snowball rolling downhill, as we speak. Check out a Hillary supporters naive blog.

Obama's Past: Who is Barack Obama? [05/28/10] [9:50]   Make this video viral again, it was removed. Barry Soetoro is not eligible to be the president. our military is not under obligation to obey his orders. His unconstitutional laws should be null and void

Obama Deficit Commission Member Calls For Pentagon Audit [05/27/10] "A leading Republican on the president's deficit commission has called, informally, for an audit of the Department of Defense, arguing that without a true sense of what is being spent and where, it will be impossible to achieve significant budget savings [...]"   

Exposé:  Obama Interrogation Official, Susan E. Brandon,  Linked to U.S. Mind Control Research [05/25/10] "A new article at Truthout I co-wrote with author and investigative journalist H.P. Albarelli describes how the CIA’s Artichoke Project* was the contemporaneous and operational side of the MK-ULTRA mind control research program. It was not superceded by MK-ULTRA in the 1950s, as often supposed.  Even more, Artichoke-derived methods of using drugs, hypnosis, sensory deprivation and overload, behavioral modification techniques and other methods of mind control have resurfaced as a primary component of U.S. interrogation practice. The Truthout article includes some amazing revelations, including the largest description to date of the roles of then-Ford administration officials Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in working hand-in-glove with the CIA to suppress information on Artichoke from surfacing. [...]"   

Obama Hand Seen in Justice Department Ending Criminal Probe of AIG Executives [05/24/10] "Responding to news that the Justice Department has dropped its criminal probe of two AIG executives, Lyndon LaRouche commented yesterday that extraordinary pressure must have been exerted on the Attorney General for him to have taken such a step, and that it was undoubtedly Obama himself, along with sidekick Timothy Geithner, who put the screws on the DOJ. After all, when Obama held his press conference to crow about the passage of the cloture motion on the "finance reform" May 20, he led off by saying, "Our goal is not to punish the banks...." [...]"   

Will Obama White House Lie About Shorebank Connection? [05/24/10] "After three Congressmen, Issa, Biggert, and Bachus, sent letters to the White House inquiring as to the White House role in the decision of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and GE Capital to invest nearly $150 million in the Chicago-based ShoreBank in order to prevent it from being seized by the FDIC, new facts have emerged which suggest that there is no way in the world that the White House was not involved. Consider the following connections of the ShoreBank to Barack Obama: [...]"  

Obama addresses West Point: Calls For New "International Order" [05/23/10] [1:12]  Note: No surprise there.

Obama’s Regulatory Czar Pushes Creepy Plan for Legally Controlling Internet Information [05/18/10] Audio clip on Video   "Cass Sunstein: "Sometimes people don't do what's best for our society." [...]"  Note:  Sunstein is a suppressive sequential incarnation who hates individuality and uniqueness, and loves group control and manipulation dynamics. Here is another HARVARD sequential flunkie ... there are more than a dozen of them ... people who are dangerous and suppressive.

Obama starts deploying interrogation teams [05/24/10] "The Obama administration has started using special law enforcement and intelligence teams to interrogate suspected militants in the United States and abroad, including the Pakistani-American arrested in the Times Square bombing plot [...]"   

An Examination of Obama's Use of Hidden Hypnosis Techniques in his Speeches [05/16/10]  "This document contains over 60 pages of evidence and analysis proving Barack Obama’s use of a little-known and highly deceptive and manipulative form of “hack” hypnosis on millions of unaware Americans, and reveals what only a few psychologists and hypnosis/NLP experts know. Barack Obama’s speeches contain the hypnosis techniques of Dr. Milton Erickson, M.D. who developed a form of “conversational” hypnosis that could be hidden in seemingly normal speech and used on patients without their knowledge for therapy purposes. Obama’s speeches intentionally contain:  Obama’s techniques are the height of deception and psychological manipulation, remaining hidden because one must understand the science behind the language patterns in order to spot them. This document examines Obama’s speeches word by word, hand gesture by hand gesture, tone, pauses, body language, and proves his use of covert hypnosis intended only for licensed therapists on consenting patients. Obama’s mesmerized, cult-like, grade-school-crush-like worship by millions is not because “Obama is the greatest leader of a generation” who simply hasn’t accomplished anything, who magically “inspires” by giving speeches. Obama is committing perhaps the biggest fraud and deception in American history. [...]"   

US files first defense of health care law in court [05/14/10] "Critics who allege that Congress overstepped the U.S. Constitution by requiring Americans to carry health insurance are "flatly wrong," the Obama administration said Wednesday in its first court defense of the landmark health care law.  Congress acted well within its power to regulate interstate commerce and to provide for the general welfare, Justice Department lawyers argued in a 46-page brief filed in federal district court in Detroit. For the courts to overturn President Barack Obama's signature domestic legislation would amount to unwarranted interference with the policymaking authority of Congress, they added. [...]"   

 Commentary: Obama Scraps Iraq Withdrawal [05/14/10] "...Obama has not announced that there will be no withdrawal. It’s just gone from 16 months to a partial withdrawal by august, to a partial withdrawal by August that won’t start until it’s almost August — and with no checks on these changes from congress or anywhere else, just discretion of the president or the generals. Unless there is push-back the delays will grow and grow, and completeness of any withdrawal will be scaled back. The SOFA requires ALL FORCES out by the end of next year and does not actually legalize any of them being there right now. [...]"   

An Updated List of Goldman Sachs Ties to the Obama Government  [05/13/10] "This essay shows the pervasive influence of Goldman Sachs and its units (like the Goldman-Robert Rubin-funded Hamilton Project embedded in the Brookings Institution) in the Obama government. These names are in addition to those compiled on an older such list and published here at FDL. In the future, I will combine the names here and those on the earlier article but I urge readers to look at the earlier list too (links below). Combined, this is the largest and most comprehensive list of such ties yet published.  For readability and clarity, I have NOT included many of the details and links that are found in the earlier article so as to make this one less repetitive and easier to read. So, if you want more documentation, please look at my earlier diary here at Firedoglake called “A List of Goldman Sachs People in the Obama Government: Names Attached To The Giant Squid’s Tentacles” published on April 27, 2010.  Note too that I have intentionally used the words, “Obama government” rather than “Obama  administration” because some of these connections are not technically within his administration. These would include ambassadorial appointments and Supreme Court appointments (like that anticipated for Elena Kagan). This also includes lobbyists like Dick Gephardt who has multiple connections/input to Obama and to Goldman Sachs and the Hamilton Project. [...]"  

Investigators: Obama uses Connecticut Soc. Sec. Number [05/13/10] "Two private investigators working independently are asking why President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state.  In addition, the records indicate the number was issued between 1977 and 1979, yet Obama's earliest employment reportedly was in 1975 at a Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shop in Oahu, Hawaii. WND has copies of affidavits filed separately in a presidential eligibility lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia by Ohio licensed private investigator Susan Daniels and Colorado private investigator John N. Sampson. The investigators believe Obama needs to explain why he is using a Social Security number reserved for Connecticut applicants that was issued at a date later than he is known to have held employment. [...]"    

Elena Kagan White House "Interview" Riles Reporters [05/12/10] Video clip [3:22] "n the interview, conducted by a White House staffer who produces videos for the administration, Kagan discusses her childhood, parents and professional career. At one point she jokes that people get confused between her job as solicitor general arguing cases before the Supreme Court and the attorney general, who puts "the labels on the cigarette packages."  While the White House seems to believe the American people deserve to hear from Kagan, it has not made her available to reporters. That prompted some consternation at today's White House briefing.  "It appears that Solicitor General Kagan did an interview yesterday right after the president's announcement," said a reporter. "You've now posted that on the White House Web site. Who did the interview? And can I have one?" "I think it's -- I think it's on the website if you want to see it," responded Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. The decision to post an interview with Kagan conducted by a government employee - not a journalist - is in line with the Obama administration's policy of regularly using new media tools to go around traditional media.  Doing so allows the administration to better control its message - and, in this case, avoid any uncomfortable questions for their Supreme Court nominee. Still, it's worth noting that it seems to be unprecedented for the nominee to be heard from at all before the confirmation hearings, other than in the initial introduction and in brief photo ops with senators. "This White House has taken its use of the web to a new level with this move," said CBS News White House correspondent Peter Maer. "The ultimate unfiltered message. Kagan 'in her own words' without anyone else's words." [...]"  

A Concurrence In The Case Against Elena Kagan [05/10/10] "Last week Glenn Greenwald penned a solid case delineating why current Solicitor General Elena Kagan, who is at the top of the purported Obama “short list”, would make a poor nominee to replace the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court. Despite the hard truth in Greenwald’s facts and arguments, he has been blistered by both the Obama Administration and their apologists and fanboys. The Administration has, as reported by Sam Stein, even enlisted a hit team of loyalist flaks and supporters to discredit Greenwald and his article. [...]"  

Elena Kagan's Goldman Sachs Ties [05/10/10] "On Friday, a slew of inquiries was made to the White House and Justice Department about a minor post Solicitor General Elena Kagan once held at Goldman Sachs, the investment bank under fire over controversial mortgage securities transactions. Kagan served on a Goldman advisory council between 2005 and 2008, with the task of providing expert "analysis and advice to Goldman Sachs and its clients." For her work she earned a $10,000 stipend. While the work Kagan did for Goldman remains largely brief or unknown, the Huffington Post was passed along two reports that the advisory council completed in 2005 and 2008 (posted below). The findings touch on the broad risks that the world economy faced and contain the type of insight expected from a largely formal panel. In terms of content, they came up a bit short, failing to mention credit bubbles in major economies (such as the U.S. housing market) as a looming problem. [...]"   Obama's Kagan Choice Will Push Court to the Right  "..it appears Obama will take the cautious route and nominate Kagan, who has no record of judicial opinions and no formidable legal writings. After the health care debacle, he should know that the right-wingers will not be appeased by this milk toast appointment, but will oppose whomever he nominates. [...]"  Note:  Another Harvard flunky Jewish appointee with a right-wing sequentialized bent, just like Cass Sunstein and others .... dangerous people.

Kagan supported detaining terror suspects indefinitely without trial [05/10/10] "Elena Kagan, President Obama's selection for the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, says she supports holding terror suspects without trial -- indefinitely, in some cases.  Questioned as to whether she'd support the detention of al Qaeda suspects without access to US laws -- or even a trial to prove their guilt -- Kagan told Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) last year she backed the Obama Administration's policy of "indefinite detention." [...]"  

Seymour Hersh on Obama Being "Dominated" by the U.S. Military [05/10/10] "To use a basketball or a football analogy, American football, fourth quarter – he may have a game plan. At this point he's in real trouble. Because the military are dominating him on the important issues of the world: Iraq, Iran, Afghan and Pakistan. And he's following the policies of Bush and Cheney almost to a fare-thee-well. He talks differently. And he's much brighter, he's much more of the world. So one only hopes he has a game plan that will include doing something, but he's in real trouble, in terms of – he's in real trouble.  In Iraq I don't have to tell anybody the prospects – in the American press they never mention Moqtada Sadr, but look out. He's going to be the kingmaker of that country. He's now studying in Iran. And he's going to be the next ayatollah-to-be. I don't know how he'll work it out with Sistani. But he's going to be the force, the Shia.  And so this is going to be very complicated for us because the two men we talk about, Allawi and Maliki, have about as much to do with the average Iraqi – they're both ex-pats. Allawi, let's see, he was certainly an American agent and a British agent, the MI-6, the CIA, the Jordanians ran him probably for Mossad. I'm not telling you anything that is not a fact. So who knows?  So Iraq is very problematical. There's going to be much more violence. Whether it's civil war or not it's going to be much more violence.  He's never going to win, whatever that means, in Afghanistan. The only solution in Afghanistan is a settlement with the Taliban. And the only person to settle with is Mullah Omar, and he's become another Hitler to the American public. So how we're going to do that and survive politically? [...]"  

Obama: "The State" Is "Threatened" by "Uncensored Information" [05/09/10] "Obama told college graduates on Saturday that the current media environment “bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments [can't have that], some of which don’t always rank all that high on the truth meter” (that is, which tell the truth and expose his lies). “With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work [in the 2008 campaign, he claimed to have an iPod] — information becomes a distraction, a diversion” (that is, you can learn things the government wants covered up). “Some of the craziest claims can quickly claim traction” — he does not, btw, mean the crazy claim that Iraq or Afghanistan or Iran must be destroyed, that people’s nude bodies must be photographed in airports, or all the DC rest. “All of this is…putting new pressures on our country [the state] and on our democracy [the regime].” The bad guys hate the internet; it quakes with fear over information and education that it does not control.  [...]"   

Obama Seems to Be Planning for a Lot More War  [05/09/10] "There's more war in America's future - a great deal more, judging by the Barack Obama administration's reports, pronouncements and actions in recent months. These documents and deeds include the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the Ballistic Missile Defense Report, the nuclear security summit in New York and the May 3-28 United Nations nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, as well as the continuing wars in the Middle East and Central Asia, and the 2011 Pentagon war budget request. The United States government presides as a military colossus of unrivalled dimension, but the QDR, which was published in February, suggests Washington views America as being constantly under the threat of attack from a multitude of fearsome forces bent on its destruction. As such, trillions more dollars must be invested in present and future wars - ostensibly to make safe the besieged homeland. [...]"  

Obama's Giant London-to-Chicago Climate Swindle: A Trillion Dollars Per Fart [05/06/10] "The climate hoax legislation now pushed by President Obama would provide trillions of dollars in loot for a gang of speculators whose central instrument, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), was initiated by Obama himself. While he was an Illinois state senator, Obama in 2000-2001 engineered private foundation funding for the start-up of the Exchange scheme, whose British, Wall Street, and Chicago beneficiaries soon boosted him rapidly into the U.S. Senate and the White House. [...]"   

Obama is biggest recipient of BP’s political action cash in the last 20 years [05/06/10] "Barack Obama is the biggest recipient of BP political action committee donations of any political candidate in the last 20 years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics and an analysis published Wednesday by Politico. [...]"  

Obama Justice Department Tells Court to Shield White House Visitor Logs from Full Disclosure and FOIA Law [05/03/10] "Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that the Obama Justice Department advanced the erroneous claim in an April 21, 2010, court filing that Secret Service’s logs of White House visitors are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). As Judicial Watch noted in its original complaint filed on December 7, 2009, this claim “has been litigated and rejected repeatedly” by the courts.  [...]"   

Obama administration defies congressional subpoena on Fort Hood documents [05/01/10] "The Obama administration said Tuesday it would provide more information to Congress about the Fort Hood shootings but continued to defy a subpoena request for witness statements and other documents. [...]"   

Obama Secret Service Forces Local Police to Corral Protesters [04/30/10] "Who gave the order to call in the riot police on protesters? Word is that Secret Service from inside the venue and the presidential team pressured local law enforcement, who were against the idea. Local cops were overruled, I’m told by various sources, including a few members of local press. Moore reported that she overheard Secret Service telling the riot squad to “push them back, out of sight.” ..."  Note: Various video clips are included. Related: U.S. Army Training To Take On Tea Party Protesters | New Video Shows Militarized Police at Obama Event in Illinois 

Obama administration defies congressional subpoena on Fort Hood documents [04/28/10] "The Obama administration said Tuesday it would provide more information to Congress about the Fort Hood shootings but continued to defy a subpoena request for witness statements and other documents. After days of negotiations, the Pentagon and Justice Dept informed a Senate committee that they would not comply with congressional subpoenas to share investigative records from the Nov. 5 shootings at Fort Hood, Tex., which killed 13 people. The agencies said that divulging the material could jeopardize their prosecution of Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the accused gunman. ..."   

Secret papers reveal Senate 'talks' between Obama and Blagojevich [04/25/10] "Sections of court papers filed by scandal-scarred former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich that were mistakenly made public show a deeper involvement by President Obama in picking his Senate successor and call into question the president's public statements on the case. According to passages in the papers filed Thursday by Blagojevich's lawyers -- which were blacked out under a judge's order but made visible by a computer glitch -- Obama, then president-elect, spoke directly to the disgraced governor on Dec. 1, 2008. But just one week later -- on the day Blagojevich was indicted -- Obama told reporters flatly, "I had no contact with the governor or his office, and so we were not -- I was not aware of what was happening." ..."  Related: Flashback: Obama Claims No Blago Contact Over Senate Seat Note:  After this week's release that Obama and Blago talked about Obama's Senate seat, this video suggests Obama was lying in December 2008. Here's the video, at the 3 minute and 3 second marker, where Obama claims "no contact with the Governor or his office". 

Blagojevic Subpoena Spells Big Trouble for Obama [04/25/10] "The White House cannot be pleased by the subpoena issued for President Obama's sworn testimony, filed April 22 by attorneys for former Illinois Governor and Obama crony Rod Blagojevic. A number of credible observers regard the subpoena as serious, and believe that it will be difficult for Obama to wriggle out of this one. ..."   

Commentary: Obama Revives Rumsfeld’s Missile Scheme, Risks Nuke War [04/25/10] "The Obama administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare- brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon. The New York Times is reporting that the Defense Department is once again looking to equip intercontinental ballistic missiles with conventional warheads. The missiles could then, in theory, destroy fleeing targets a half a world away — a no-notice “bolt from the blue,” striking in a matter of hours. There’s just one teeny-tiny problem: the launches could very well start World War III. ..."     

Obama's Mental Faculties Called Into Question [04/24/10] "There are several recent developments which tend to call into question the faculties of President Obama. ..."   

US to launch secret 'space warplane' [04/21/10] "The United States Air Force has announced that it will launch a secret space plane that has sparked speculation about the militarization of space. The Pentagon has set April 21 as the date for the launch of the robotic space plane known as the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), which is a reusable unmanned plane capable of long outer space missions at low orbits. Since the nature of the project is shrouded in mystery, defense analysts allege that the US military is building the first generation of US 'space Predator drones' that will build up the United States' space armada, the Christian Science Monitor wrote in a recent article. Military experts argue that the US Department of Defense would not have saved NASA's costly X-37B project, which had been scrapped, if it did not have a military application. ..."  

Obama’s Justice Department indicts NSA whistleblower [04/16/10] "A former senior National Security Agency official is facing a slew of charges over the leaking of classified information about the super secret intelligence agency to a newspaper reporter.  Thomas Drake, 52, of Glenwood, Maryland, was charged in a 10-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Maryland, the Justice Department said in a statement Thursday.  Drake, a high-ranking employee at the NSA between 2001 and 2008, is accused of illegally retaining classified information, obstructing justice and making false statements. Drake is alleged to have provided information to a newspaper reporter for a series of articles published between February 2006 and November 2007. The indictment did not identify the reporter, described only as "Reporter A," or the "national newspaper" but various reports identified her as Siobhan Gorman of The Baltimore Sun. ..."   

George Shultz Lies on the SDI, Endorses Obama [04/16/10] "In an interview printed in the Christian Science Monitor on April 14, George Shultz, the man who dismantled the Bretton Woods System under Richard Nixon and launched Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's fascist Operation Condor along with Felix Rohatyn, endorsed British puppet President Barack Obama's current nuclear-weapons-reduction policy as a continuation of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which was authored by Lyndon LaRouche. ..."  

Brzezinski censures Obama's ME policy [04/13/10] "The former US national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, has criticized President Barack Obama for his Middle East policy. ..."  Note: Curious, since BRZ is alleged to be the one whose policy Obama 'follows'.

'Professor' Obama? Title never granted: Barack, Michelle not licensed to practice law [04/12/10] "WND has traced the current controversy to Doug Ross and a March 1 posting on his DirectorBlue.blogspot.com asserting the Obamas are no longer lawyers registered to practice law in Illinois and that claims President Obama was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago are "a sham." This current round of the controversy harkens back to the 2008 presidential campaign when Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton made nearly the same charges in a March 25, 2008, "Hillary for President" press release entitled "Just Embellished Words: Senator Obama's Record of Exaggerations & Misstatements." After stating Barack Obama was not a law professor at the University of Chicago, the Clinton press release insisted: "He (Barack Obama) is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school. In academia, there's a vast difference between the two titles. Details matter. Professors have tenure while lecturers do not." . ..."   

Obama going off the deep end [04/11/10] "A recent analysis by Roger Simon of PJTV Media maintains that Obama is showing signs of mental illness. A wide variety of commentators have observed that Obama displays severe narcissism. Obama is conceited, and he is demonstrating a serious disassociation from reality.  A recent case in point was Obama's bizarre and meandering 17-minute, 2,500-word answer to the simple question about how he could justify raising taxes for ObamaCare during a recession when citizens are already overtaxed. Obama's wildly inappropriate answer left the audience stunned and led commentator Charles Krauthammer to mockingly say, "I don't know why you are so surprised. It’s only nine times the length of the Gettysburg address, and after all Lincoln was answering an easier question, the higher purpose of the union and the soldiers who fell in battle."  This lapse of delusion occurred in front of a friendly audience. Overall, Barack Obama seems to be slipping into a slightly more delusional state these days. On Monday, following his embarrassing answer on Saturday, Obama stopped by the Washington Nationals home opener to loft an effeminate toss toward home plate constituting the ceremonial first pitch. After this display, Obama was mucking it up in the press booth talking about his love of the Chicago White Sox. The announcers asked Obama which players he supported growing up a White Sox fan. After hemming and hawing for about 30 seconds, Obama responded that he grew up in Hawaii and was actually an A's fan. Again, he avoided mentioning any players by name. Obama seems to believe that he can say whatever he wants, and not reap the consequences or be forced to defend his empty assertions. Obama behaves in a manner so disconnected from reality that he is shocked when someone has the audacity to question him. Obama acts like his word is infallible.  In March of last year Obama was on “60 Minutes” with Steve Kroft. Throughout the interview as Kroft questioned about the economic downturn and people losing their life savings, Obama just kept laughing. A one point CBS’s Kroft stopped him and asked, “Are you punch drunk?" How will the American people react to seeing their president laugh off their predicament? Obama’s inappropriate laughter clearly demonstrated he has lost touch with the pain that people are feeling.  Obama portrays himself as the larger-than-life figure towering above the political fray. At the summit when Obama was pushing his health care package through Congress, he attempted to act as if he were the chief arbiter of truth. With petty insults, he slapped down what the Republicans proposed and audaciously claimed his was a “bipartisan bill.” Obama distorts the truth with such frequency that one must start to question if Obama even realizes he is lying or is so disassociated from the truth that he believes what he says. A further example of Obama’s delusions of grandeur occurred when he ......"  Note: Interesting piece.

Grounds for Obama's Impeachment or Removal from Office Keep Growing [04/05/10] "Lyndon LaRouche yesterday highlighted two elements, from a growing bill of indictment against President Barack Obama, warranting his immediate impeachment, or resignation from office. Obama's 24-hour trip to Kabul last week, where he scolded President Karzai for "corruption," but made no mention of the opium trade, was a phase-shift. ..."  

Obama "Guilty of Impeachable Crimes," Says Author David Lindorff [04/04/10] "Investigative journalist David Lindorff, who worked closely with Rep. John Conyers' House Committee on the Judiciary in 2005-2006, making the case for the impeachment of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush—that is, before Nancy Pelosi took impeachment "off the table"—is the first former Obama-lover to call for Obama's impeachment. ..."  

Obama lies to CBS on Iran nuclear evidence; CBS publishes lies in conspiracy for unlawful war [04/04/10] "Based on the history of lies preceding the unlawful US armed attack and invasion of Iraq (explained verbally here), Americans have little time to stop a lie-based US armed attack of Iran. Official US policy allows first-strike use of nuclear weapons based upon these lies. CBS printed obvious lies of President Obama that are fully refuted by all International Atomic Energy Agency reports that ALL of Iran’s nuclear material is fully accountable for peaceful and legal use for energy and medical isotopes. Mr. Obama’s lies are also fully refuted by the current unanimous agreement of all 16 US intelligence agencies published in their current National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). The documentation for the two above facts is here. ..."   

The Biggest Hustle in Human History [04/01/10] "...Chicago Law School faculty hated Obama "because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool" ..."  

Advocate of 9/11 Censorship on Obama’s Short List for Supreme Court [03/31/10] "Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law Professor and Confidant of Obama was appointed to be Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He became infamous within this movement for writing a paper on how to best to combat “Government Conspiracy Theory Groups,” including by covert infiltration, as described by Glen Greenwald.  ..."  Note:  This guy is a real piece of work. Another idiot sequential from Harvard.

Obama's CMS Nominee Advised British NHS, Was Knighted By Queen For It [03/31/10] "The physician President Obama is nominating to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was recently named an honorary knight commander of the British Empire. The service for which the Queen Elizabeth honored Dr. Donald Berwick, was his role as consultant and advisor to the British National Health Service (NHS) from 1996 to 2003. ..."   

Monsanto in the White House Garden: One Recess Appointment That's Toxic [03/31/10] "One of the 15 installed was Islam Siddiqui, who just left his post as vice president of science and regulatory affairs for CropLife America, the lobby group representing pesticide and biotech crop producers and distributors. As far as PR goes, CropLife's basic goal is to replace the term "pesticide" with "crop protection" and "genetically-modified crops" with "science." CropLife's clients include Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta and DuPont. Siddiqui managed to pass through his hearing with the Senate Finance Committee back in December, despite his being a lobbyist for some of the most feared and reviled companies in the world. ..."  Related: Pro-GMO chemical pollutor becomes Obama’s ag trade negotiator  "Despite declining bee and butterfly populations from agricultural chemicals, yesterday the US Senate approved President Barack Obama’s nomination for chief agricultural negotiator in the office of the U.S. trade representative, Monsanto lobbyist Islam Siddiqui. ...  “Dr. Siddiqui’s confirmation is a step backward,” said Tierra Curry, a scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity (the “Center”). “His appointment ensures the perpetuation of pesticide- and fossil-fuel-intensive policies, which undermine global food security and imperil public health and wildlife.”  As undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Siddiqui oversaw the development of the first national organic labeling standards, which allowed sewage sludge-fertilized, genetically modified, and irradiated food to be labeled as organic, reports the Center. After a nationwide campaign spearheaded by the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) in which the USDA was deluged with 280,000 irate letters and emails, Siddiqui, Monsanto, and the USDA backed off.  Apparently to no avail.  Siddiqui is a former pesticide lobbyist and is currently vice president of science and regulatory affairs at CropLife America, a biotech and pesticide trade group that lobbies to weaken environmental laws. He takes the absurd position that pesticides are not pollutants because they’re not intended to be pollutants ....."   

Obama Disapproval 50% For First Time [03/31/10]  Note: The other half of the country is mentally ill.  

Obama’s Heritage Foundation Socialism [03/26/10] "Krugman points out that the Bush-era Heritage Foundation proposed a reform package eerily similar to Obamacare. Krugman thinks this is an argument for Obamacare, but I see it as another reason not to trust conservatives on questions of economic liberty. During the Bush years, conservative think tanks advocated the unconstitutional individual mandate and subsidies? Of course they did. No surprise here. After all, social democracy is simply soft corporatist fascism, with a different emphasis. Can we pass off a conservative imposition on the individual, all to benefit connected health care firms, in the name of standing up to them? Yes we can. By the way, isn’t it sickening to see the left mourn the separation of David Frum from AEI? How dare a conservative organization disassociate with someone who is not just for the warfare state, but the welfare state too? Socialist warmongers like Frum and Lindsey Graham are seen as “moderates” by most leftists, since they are wrong not just on war but on everything.  ..."   

Obama is "The Emergence of Elective Dictatorship in America" LaRouchePAC Breaking News [03/24/10] "The British have again demonstrated that they understand the reality that Obama, the fascist, is quickly going down. In an article in the London Daily Telegraph, Toby Young describes President Obama as more of a British-style Prime Minister than a President. Under the American system of checks and balances, the Executive is made independent of the Congress, making the U.S. less vulnerable to dictatorial excesses. However, writes Young, as the health vote shows, Obama has become "the most partisan President in living memory. ... 

Obama is a Fascist [03/24/10] "On Sunday, March 21, the disgraced and hated U.S. Congress committed an act of mass genocide, while committing mass political suicide, by voting to pass President Obama's fascist health care legislation. That bill includes the Nazi T-4-modeled IPAB (Independent Payment Advisory Board), designed to dictate death to categories of citizens deemed "useless eaters", without Congressional "interference" — exactly as Lyndon LaRouche had warned for months was the British Empire's central demand. ..."   

LaRouche: Obama's Pathological State of Euphoria [03/24/10] "As of today, President Barack Obama has reached a virtually uncontrollable pathological state of euphoria of the type against which I had forewarned in my publicized diagnosis in my April 11, 2009 international webcast. ..."   

Obama’s Lie Built Upon a Lie (Built Upon Another Lie) [03/23/10] "Here’s an interesting short video of candidate Obama discussing his uncle who was part of the Black unit that liberated the Auschwitz Concentration Camp at the end of World War II. The problems are, according to the video, (1) Obama didn’t have an uncle who served in the U.S. Army and (2) Auschwitz was not even liberated by an American army unit—it was liberated by the Russians. ..."  Note: Obama is a sequential who has no concept of his 'job.'  

Obama, Clinton Money Man Guilty Of Major Fraud Scheme [03/19/10] "The shady Iranian fundraiser who for years donated lucrative sums to top Democrats—including the president, vice president and secretary of state—has pleaded guilty to a major bank-fraud scheme that could land him in jail for nearly two decades. Disgraced Democratic money man Hassan Nemazee admitted this week that he defrauded three financial institutions out of nearly $300 million in loan proceeds by falsifying documents and signatures to show he had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of collateral. The Ivy League-educated crook then used the proceeds to donate big bucks to the campaigns of federal, state and local candidates. Among them are some of the nation’s best known and most powerful Democrats, including Secretary of State and former New York Senator Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Nemazee was actually the national finance chairman of Clinton’s failed 2008 presidential campaign as well as John Kerry’s in 2004. The corrupt “investment banker” went on to raise more than half a million dollars for Obama after Clinton’s primary defeat and donated the maximum ($50,000) allowed to the new president’s inauguration committee. Less than a year ago Nemazee hosted a $28,500-a-head fundraiser for Obama in his luxurious Upper East Side New York penthouse. When Nemazee was criminally charged last fall, top Democrats scrambled to return his tainted money and there is plenty floating around the coffers of the party’s elite. For nearly a decade Nemazee was a key figure in Democratic fundraising circles, donating and gathering hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nemazee was so well-connected that in the late 1990s Bill Clinton nominated him to be a U.S. ambassador in Argentina though the position never materialized.  Another top Democratic fundraiser, admitted Chinese swindler Norman Hsu, is in jail for fraud. Hsu raised nearly $1 million for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and substantial sums for party leaders like New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and California Senator Dianne Feinstein. Clinton was so tight with Hsu that a voicemail recording of her praising Hsu was presented as evidence in federal court. In it she repeatedly thanks Hsu for his support and tells the one-time fugitive she’s never seen anybody who has been more loyal and more effective. ..."   Related: Dem fund-raiser admits bank fraud in a Ponzi scheme  "A wealthy businessman who raised money for leading Democratic Party politicians, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, pleaded guilty on Thursday to defrauding three major banks out of $292.2 million in loan transactions, Reuters reported. Hassan Nemazee, 60, who once ran a private equity firm, admitted in Manhattan federal court to defrauding Bank of America of more than $142 million, Citigroup of $74.9 million and HSBC Holdings of $74.9 million to pay his debt to Citigroup. 

Did Obama Buy Off 2 Votes With 'Water Deal'? [03/19/10] "Is this Another Backroom Deal to Force Obama’s Bill Down the American People’s Throats? As a vote approaches on Obama and Pelosi’s government takeover of healthcare, Code Red is now considering two supposedly “undecided” California Democrats, Dennis Cardoza and Jim Costa, to now be “yes” votes. The U.S. Department of Interior announced yesterday that it is increasing water allocations for the Central Valley of California, a region that depends on these water allocations to support local agriculture and jobs. The region has recently been starved for water and as a result unemployment has soared. Not surprisingly, Cardoza and Costa had a hand in the announcement: ..."  

Politician Alexi Giannoulias, Opting for Obama's Senate Seat, Owns Bank That Loaned $52 million to Criminals in the Chicago mob [03/13/10] "U.S. Rep Mark Kirk said today that Thursday's arrest of a Giannoulias Family friend and bank customer brings the amount of money Broadway Bank has loaned to criminals to $52 million. State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, Kirk's Democratic opponent for U.S. Senate, has said that as chief loan officer of his family's bank from 2002 to 2006, he did not check loan applicants’ arrest records.
Kirk calls that "reckless."  ..."   

White House Backs Chicago Mob Linked Alexi Giannoulias [03/11/10] VIDEO [0:55]   

Obama taps ex-Army general to head TSA [03/09/10] "A retired general with an extensive background in intelligence gathering has been selected to lead the Transportation Security Administration. NBC's Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News) ..."  

Commentary: Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama By Chris Hedges [03/02/10] "We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives.  Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush. He promised us that the transfer of $12.8 trillion in taxpayer money to Wall Street would open up credit and lending to the average consumer. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), however, admitted last week that banks have reduced lending at the sharpest pace since 1942. As a senator, Obama promised he would filibuster amendments to the FISA Reform Act that retroactively made legal the wiretapping and monitoring of millions of American citizens without warrant; instead he supported passage of the loathsome legislation. He told us he would withdraw American troops from Iraq, close the detention facility at Guantánamo, end torture, restore civil liberties such as habeas corpus and create new jobs. None of this has happened.  ..."   

Obama’s ‘Chicago mafia’ blamed for paralysis at the top [02/22/10] "This administration has managed to divide its friends and unite its enemies,” said Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Programme at the New America Foundation. He and others lay the blame on the Chicago team, advisers from Obama’s adopted city. “Obama’s West Wing is filled with people who are in their jobs because of their Chicago connections or because they signed on early during his presidential campaign,” complained Doug Wilder, who in 1990s Virginia was America’s first elected black governor and was an early backer of Obama. “One problem is they do not have sufficient experience at governing at the executive branch level. The deeper problem is that they are not listening to the people.” Obama relies on five people, four of whom are Chicagoans. They are Rahm Emanuel, his chief of staff, David Axelrod and Jarrett, his political advisers, and Michelle, while the fifth kitchen cabinet member is Robert Gibbs, his chief spokesman, who comes from Alabama. The president consults them on everything. Military commanders were astounded when they participated in Afghanistan war councils and referred to them as the “Chicago mafia”. It was this group that inserted into Obama’s Afghan surge speech the deadline of July 2011 as a date to start withdrawing. With Democrats fearing big losses in the mid-term elections in November, the knives are out for Emanuel, whose abrasive manner and use of profanities have won him few friends. Although his job is to deflect criticism from his boss, Rahmbo, as he is known, seems to have gone over the top. The Wall Street Journal reported him losing his temper at a strategy session in August and referring to liberals as “fucking retarded”. He is said to have sent dead fish to a pollster whose numbers he did not like. Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, called on Obama to remove Emanuel, arguing that he needs someone who knows how to navigate Washington or will end up being no more than a speechmaker. ..."   

Obama’s atomic blunder [02/19/10] "As Vermont seethes with radioactive contamination and the Democratic Party crumbles, Barack Obama has plunged into the atomic abyss. In the face of fierce green opposition and withering scorn from both liberal and conservative budget hawks, Obama has done what George W. Bush could not — pledge billions of taxpayer dollars for a relapse of the 20th century’s most expensive technological failure. Obama has announced some $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for two new reactors planned for Georgia. Their Westinghouse AP-1000 designs have been rejected by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as being unable to withstand natural cataclysms like hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes. ..."    Related: Commentary: Five Reasons NOT to Invest in Nuclear Power "Obama announced that the Energy department will provide an $8.3 billion loan guarantee to the Southern Co. for its proposed nuclear power plant near Augusta, GA. News coverage has been mostly supportive and, in some cases, bordering on cheerleading. In his blog for the Atlantic magazine, Editor Daniel Indiviglio laid out "five reasons to cheer Obama's ambition." Let's take a closer look at these "five reasons." ..."    Energy Sec Unaware That Nuclear Loans Have 50 Percent Risk of Default   "In fact, the economics of the nuclear industry look so dicey that Wall Street banks—no strangers to high-risk investments—have for several years balked at financing new plants unless the government underwrites the deal. "There will be no nuclear renaissance beyond what the government is willing to underwrite," Peter Bradford, a former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission who is now a professor at Vermont Law School, told Mariah Blake in a recent piece for Mother Jones. And the nuclear industry has not been shy about announcing its reliance on the taxpayer. "Without loan guarantees we will not build nuclear power plants," Michael J. Wallace, co-chief executive of UniStar Nuclear and vice president of Constellation Energy, told the New York Times in 2007. That means the government would assume almost all the risk. ..."   

Obama Eyes Western Land for National Monuments, Angering Some [02/19/10] "More than a dozen pristine landscapes, wildlife habitats and scenic rivers in 11 Western states, some larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, are under consideration by the Obama administration to become America's newest National Monuments -- a decision the administration can make unilaterally without local input or congressional approval.  According to internal Department of Interior documents leaked to a Utah congressman and obtained exclusively by Fox News, the mostly public lands include Arizona deserts, California mountains, Montana prairies, New Mexico forests, Washington islands and the Great Basins of Nevada and Colorado -- totaling more than 13 million acres. Sources say President Obama is likely to choose two or three sites from the list, depending on their size, conservation value and the development threat to each one's environment. ..."    

In 1979, Obama was considered by the U.S. Administration as a foreigner [02/18/10] "For over one year, evidence has been mounting to the effect that Barack Obama is not a U.S.-born citizen and is constitutionally ineligible to hold the office of president. Several legal actions have been taken on such grounds with a view to overturn his election, all of which have been judged to be inadmissible. To this day, Barack Obama has spent 950 000 dollars to avoid having to produce his original birth certificate. The Republican Party has stayed out of the fray. All the more since its own candidate John McCain was not eligible for the presidency either (Senator McCain was born a U.S. citizen, but on a U.S. military base abroad and not on U.S. soil as required by the Constitution). Everything indicates that an agreement between the two major parties was reached before the presidential election. By default, it is essentially extremist groups that have been agitating over this issue ... in certain cases flagrantly due to racism or anti-black discrimination.  .. 

Obama Restarts Nation's Nuclear Power Plants With $8 Billion Loan [02/17/10] "President Obama unveiled $8 billion in loans Tuesday to build the nation's first nuclear power plant in nearly 30 years, and he used it to call for Republican support in his continued push for carbon-free electricity. "Make no mistake: whether it is nuclear energy, or solar or wind energy, if we fail to invest in these technologies today, we'll be importing them tomorrow," Obama said. ..."   

Opinion:  "Obama Is Being Blackmailed Into Attacking Iran" [02/17/10] "Establishment media talking points from every direction strongly indicate that a false flag attempt on President Obama’s life is being considered, to be blamed on patsies from either the “extreme” right or left, in order to silence dissent in America and blackmail Obama into launching a military assault on Iran. ..."  Note: Interesting theory. Let's see what happens. Remember that little 'hand sign' all leaders make?  If both Obama and the president of Iran do it, then they are just different teams kowtowing to the same club. Related: Alex Jones: "Obama is The Next False Flag" 6 Video clips [02/17/10] "Alex Jones explains where the next false flag threat is coming from and how it is connected to Glenn Beck’s repeated demonization of 9/11 truthers as terrorists who want to kill Obama. ..."  

Obama's Party shocked as senator bids to quit [02/16/10] "US President Barack Obama's Democratic Party has suffered another major setback as one more top Democratic senator has announced his retirement plans, hinting rifts in Congress. ..."  

Obama Poised to Use Executive Power to Muscle Through Domestic Agenda [02/14/10] Related: Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power  "With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities. ... “We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff. Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat. And Mr. Obama’s success this week in pressuring the Senate to confirm 27 nominations by threatening to use his recess appointment power demonstrated that executive authority can also be leveraged to force action by Congress ...."   

National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski: Obama's foreign policy in gridlock [02/07/10] "President Obama's foreign policy agenda may have "run out of steam" and he must now take risks and provide effective leadership, former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said Friday. ..."  

 Analysis:   Digging Through Obama’s Closet [02/05/10] "Many Americans were shocked by Obama’s meteoric rise to power. Although plenty of other ‘relative unknowns’ have made the jump from Congress or a governorship to the Oval Office, none of them were visible minorities or able to galvanize public sentiment nearly as well as Obama. Following 8 years of despotic rule by George Bush & Co., huge segments of the American public embraced Obama’s candidacy with wanton enthusiasm. His campaign rallies took on an imperialistic tenor, and for many confused Americans he was psychologically conflated as a political messiah – ready, willing and able to act as civilization’s great panacea. Unfortunately, much of the public was simply projecting dreams for a better future onto Obama. They saw in him a clear improvement over Bush and more integrity than Hillary Clinton, and this branding helped him handily mop the floor with John McCain. Nevertheless, branding aside, with a little critical attention Obama’s rise to power begins to seem less accidental, and takes on all the hues of a prolonged, successful grooming process. Barack Obama did not become a global sensation by accident. He had help getting where he is. That help obviously included corporate and financial interests, but it may also have included the involvement of covert intelligence agencies – perhaps most especially the CIA. ..."   

"Obama Is A Corporate Marketing Creation" John Richard Pilger  [02/05/10] VIDEO [5:28]   "John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary maker. He has twice won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US...."  Note:  Good

Obama to travel to Indonesia, Australia in March [02/03/10] "Barack Obama will make what will be an emotional trip with his family to his childhood home of Indonesia in March, and will also visit Australia, the White House announced on Monday. ..."  

President Bows to Tampa Mayor - Odd Protocol, and a review of what's happened so far [02/03/10] " ..."  Note: Perhaps the spirit who 'powers' the Obama character is used to doing this on sequential worlds ... hard to say what his unusual protocol is a result of. 

Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers  [02/03/10] "Without the ingenuity of America’s brightest minds and the investment of U.S. taxpayer dollars, there would be no Internet, as we now know it today. Now, the Obama administration has moved quietly to cede control of the Web from the United States to foreign powers. ..... In an effort to show the world how inclusive, sharing, cooperative, and international America can be, the Obama administration set off on a plan to surrender control and key management of the Internet by the U.S. Department of Commerce and its agents .... The key to the control America has over the Internet is through the management of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the giant servers that service the Internet .... For years, the international community has been pressuring the United States to surrender its control and management of the Internet. They want an international body such as the United Nations or even the International Telecommunications Union, (an entity that coordinates international telephone communications), to manage all aspects of the Internet in behalf of all nations. The argument advanced for those seeking international control of the Internet is that the Internet has become such a powerful, pervasive, and a dependent form of international communications, that it would be dangerous and inequitable for any one nation to control and manage it. Just this past spring, within months of Obama's taking office, his administration, through the Department of Commerce, agreed to relinquish some control over IANA and their governance. The Obama administration has agreed to give greater representation to foreign companies and countries on IANA. This amounts to one small step for internationalism and one giant leap for surrendering America's control over an invention we have every right and responsibility to control and manage."  Note: Even if this process were initiated today, it would be several years before anything approaching the level of 'loss of control' would remotely be there.

Is Obama a Wall Street project?  [02/01/10] VIDEO [11:10]  "Webster Tarpley, journalist, radio host and critic of the Obama administration, reveals to RT who he thinks really rules the United States. ..."  

CrossTalk: Obama takes on Chinese Red Dragon  [02/01/10] VIDEO [26:45]  "China has arrived in a big way. Peter Lavelle asks his guests whether the world should embrace China's rising or whether we should expect a major reordering of the international system. ..."  

Obama increases nuclear weapons budget [01/31/10] ""I have embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan through a strategy that reverses the spread of [nuclear] weapons, and seeks a world without them," President Barack Obama claimed during his first State of the Union speech. "To reduce our stockpiles and launchers, while ensuring our deterrent, the United States and Russia are completing negotiations on the farthest-reaching arms control treaty in nearly two decades." Yet, in the budget the Obama White House will send to Congress on Monday, the administration proposes a 10 percent spending increase on the nation's nuclear weapons budget, bringing the total to roughly $7 billion, according to McClatchy Newspapers. In a Friday op-ed published by The Wall Street Journal, Vice President Joseph Biden claimed that the increase is due in large part to the decay in nuclear stockades over the last decade, due mainly to neglect by the Bush administration. ..." 

Obama Finances Offshore Drilling in Brazil [01/27/10] "The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan. The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a "preliminary commitment" letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas. But look on the bright side. If President Obama has embraced offshore drilling in Brazil, why not in the old U.S.A.? The land of the sorta free and the home of the heavily indebted has enormous offshore oil deposits, and last year ahead of the November elections, with gasoline at $4 a gallon, Congress let a ban on offshore drilling expire ..."   

Obama Executive Order Seeks to "Synchronize and Integrate" State and Federal Military Forces [01/17/10] "In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism panics, and last year's Big Pharma and media-engineered hysteria over the H1N1 flu pandemic, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13528 on January 11. Among other things, the Executive Order (EO) established a Council of Governors, an "advisory panel" chosen by the President that will rubber-stamp long-sought-after Pentagon contingency plans to seize control of state National Guard forces in the event of a "national emergency." According to the White House press release, the ten member, bipartisan Council was created "to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State Governments to protect our Nation against all types of hazards."  "When appointed" the announcement continues, "the Council will be reviewing such matters as involving the National Guard of the various States; homeland defense; civil support; synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States; and other matters of mutual interest pertaining to National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities."  Clearly designed to weaken the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 which bars the use of the military for civilian law enforcement, EO 13528 is the latest in a series of maneuvers by previous administrations to wrest control of armed forces historically under the democratic control of elected state officials, and a modicum of public accountability. One consequence of moves to "synchronize and integrate" state National Guard units with those of the Armed Forces would be to place them under the effective control of United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), created in 2002 by Bushist legislators in both capitalist parties under the pretext of imperialism's endless "War on Terror." At the time, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called USNORTHCOM's launch "the most sweeping set of changes since the unified command system was set up in 1946."  The real-world consequences of those changes weren't long in coming. ..."   

Obama’s Favorite For Supreme Court Justice Sunstein Wants To Ban Guns, Free Speech [01/17/10] "Regulatory Czar has already been tapped for senior position Cass Sunstein, president Obama’s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, and the man who outlined a plan for the government to infiltrate “conspiracy groups” in order to undermine them, is in direct line for a promotion to Supreme Court Justice. Sunstein, already in an advanced position of power in the White House as Regulatory czar, has already called for strict restrictions on gun ownership, an internet “Fairness Doctrine”, and an effective ban on free speech where dissenting opinions to those of the government are expressed. ..."  Note: The absolute end of the US society if this happens, as far as socially allowed action is concerned. Related: Cass Sunstein (Zionist) Predicts Repealing Right To Bear Arms  VIDEO [0:30]  "Cass Sunstein, Obama's Regulatory Czar, predicts that the 2nd Amendment (Right to Bear Arms) will be repealed in 3 or 4 years in lecture at University of Chicago School of Law on October 27, 2007.  ..."  Note: A number of video clips involving Sunstein are on this video page. 

Top Obama czar: Infiltrate all ‘conspiracy theorists’ [01/16/10]  "In a lengthy academic paper, President Obama’s regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, argued the U.S. government should ban “conspiracy theorizing.” Among the beliefs Sunstein would ban is advocating that the theory of global warming is a deliberate fraud. Sunstein also recommended the government send agents to infiltrate “extremists who supply conspiracy theories” to disrupt the efforts of the “extremists” to propagate their theories. In a 2008 Harvard law paper, “Conspiracy Theories,” Sunstein and co-author Adrian Vermeule, a Harvard law professor, ask, “What can government do about conspiracy theories?” ..."  Note:  What about government conspiracy theories? Like 911. This sequential attempt at thought control is disfuckingusting. Obama Regulation Czar Advocated Removing People’s Organs Without Explicit Consent  "Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken. Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done."

Obama Side Kick Giannoulias Attacked for Chicago Mob Link in Senate Debate [01/15/10] "Hoffman lit into Giannoulias as soon as the debate started, saying, "The insider candidate Alexi Giannoulias has held two jobs for short periods of time, one as a banker for his family's bank where he made high-risk loans to mobsters and (convicted influence peddler) Tony Rezko, and as the state treasurer where he failed to protect the people's money." ..."  

Obama Advisor Promotes 'Cognitive Infiltration' [01/14/10] "In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama's appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated "cognitive infiltration" of groups that advocate "conspiracy theories" like the ones surrounding 9/11. Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures," in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine" those groups ...." Sunstein, whose article focuses largely on the 9/11 conspiracy theories, suggests that the government "enlist nongovernmental officials in the effort to rebut the theories. It might ensure that credible independent experts offer the rebuttal, rather than government officials themselves. There is a tradeoff between credibility and control, however. The price of credibility is that government cannot be seen to control the independent experts." Download a PDF of the article here. Sunstein argued that "government might undertake (legal) tactics for breaking up the tight cognitive clusters of extremist theories." He suggested that "government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action."

Obama Executive Order Stokes Martial Law Fears [01/13/10] "An Obama executive order that creates a council of state governors who will work with the feds to expand military involvement in domestic security has stoked fears that the administration is stepping up preparations for martial law. The order, which is entitled Establishment of the Council of Governors (PDF), creates a body of ten state governors directly appointed by Obama who will work with the federal government to help advance the “synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States”. The governors will liaise with officials from Northcom, Homeland Security, the National Guard as well as DoD officials from the Pentagon “in order to strengthen further the partnership between the Federal Government and State governments,” according to the executive order. In October 2008, Northcom, a Unified Combatant Command of the United States military based out of Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, was assigned the 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team returning from Iraq. An alarming September 8 Army Times report which was later denied after it sparked controversy stated that the troops would be used by Northcom to deal with “civil unrest and crowd control” in the aftermath of a national emergency. The Obama executive order states that governors will help advise the feds on National Guard, homeland defense, and civil support activities." 

President Obama, the CIA and the Master of the Cover-Up [01/13/10] "The Obama administration quietly announced Friday the appointment of John McLaughlin, former deputy CIA director, to head the internal investigation of the intelligence failures that led to the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Delta airliner headed for Detroit as well as the events leading to the shootings at Fort Hood in November. ..."  Note: It was the fault of the Israeli's.  Everyone knows that, and also that the CIA cannot investigate itself.

Obama orders $1B spent on airport body scanners [01/13/10] "Obama directed the Homeland Security Department to acquire $1 billion in advanced-technology equipment, including body scanners, for screening passengers at airports. ..."  Note:  Scanners made by Israeli companies .... after Israelis caused the problem to begin.

Obama received $20 million bribe from healthcare industry in 2008 campaign [01/12/10] "While some sunlight has been shed on the hefty sums shoveled into congressional campaign coffers in an effort to influence the Democrats' massive healthcare bill, little attention has been focused on the far larger sums received by President Barack Obama while he was a candidate in 2008. A new figure, based on an exclusive analysis created for Raw Story by the Center for Responsive Politics, shows that President Obama received a staggering $20,175,303 from the healthcare industry during the 2008 election cycle, nearly three times the amount of his presidential rival John McCain. McCain took in $7,758,289, the Center found. The new figure, obtained by Raw Story through an independent custom research request performed by the Center for Responsive Politics -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that tracks money in politics -- is the most comprehensive breakdown yet available of healthcare industry contributions to Obama during the 2008 election cycle. Currently, the Center's website shows that Obama received $19,462,986 from the health sector, which includes health professionals ($11.7m), health services/HMOs ($1.4m), hospitals/nursing homes ($3.3m) and pharmaceuticals/health products ($2.1m). Miscellaneous health donations (from which Obama received $860,411) are also factored into the current total health sector numbers but are not accessible on the site. ..."  Note: Now, if you add what Congressman received, it's evidence of a huge quid pro quo ... treasonous.  Related: Commentary: How Corrupt Reid/Obama PhRMA Deal Undermined Byron Dorgan [01/12/10] "Byron Dorgan worked on drug reimportation for 10 years. It would have saved consumers a minimum of $100 billion over ten years, and 4-5 times that if it had succeeded in bringing US pharmaceutical prices down. Dorgan had the magic “60 votes” for an amendment too, but that would have violated the secret PhRMA deal negotiated by the White House. And after all, as Tom Carper said, PhRMA paid for it with advertising. Harry Reid kept the vote off the floor until PhRMA managed to whip the votes against it. Here’s part 1 of the video of Dorgan from the Senate floor on December 15, 2009, the day that Reid finally allowed the amendment to come to a vote: ..."   

Scott Ritter: Obama’s Alternate Universe [01/12/10] "The situation President Obama faces in today’s post-Taliban Afghanistan is similar to the one he faces in Iraq: There is no good policy option for resolving a problem that is defined mostly by the need to manufacture a perception of “victory” for the American people. In Afghanistan, as was the case with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, the United States removed a political entity from power and ended up creating a vacuum in the nation’s social, political and economic reality that the American occupier has not been able to fill, no matter how much money has been spent and how many soldiers have been deployed. ~~~The “war on terror” into which Obama seems to have thrust himself (the most recent manifestation being Yemen) remains the largest obstacle for any rational resolution of America’s problems in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Simply put, so long as the United States seeks an enemy that does not exist, it will always be looking for an enemy in its stead. The “war on terror” has the United States combing the world in search of enemies, and because American policymakers are responsive not to the reality that exists in the world today, but rather the perceptions of an American people largely ignorant of the world in which they live, and paralyzed by the fear such ignorance generates, there will always be countries and causes America will anoint as foe. The “war on terror” becomes a self-perpetuating problem for which there is no solution. Worse, it is a problem that ultimately will destroy America, not from any actions undertaken by whatever manifestation ..."  

Obama to target banks with new levy [01/12/10] "The Obama administration, under increasing pressure from Democrats in Congress to take punitive action against banks, is readying a new levy on the finance sector that will form part of the budget to be presented in February. ..."   

Obama and the White House Chicago Boys [01/11/10] "Barack Obama has a problem. His polls numbers are dropping and his policies are fueling an angry backlash across America. The Democratic party is held in disrepute, and congressional Democrats are dropping like flies. This imperils Obama's radical agenda and his own 2012 prospects. What to do? Game the system and rig the future elections. That is how things are done in the streets of Chicago. Signs are emerging that the Chicago Boys -- the triumvirate of Obama, Emanuel, and Axlerod -- are up to their old tricks, as I touched upon in a previous American Thinker column. My recent interest was piqued by two news items that floated across my screen in the last week. One was the release of the White House visitor logs that showed visits by Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and named by Fortune Magazine as "the most powerful woman in the labor movement. " We know Andy Stern, head of the SEIU, routinely visits the White House and has boasted of the tens of millions of dollars and man-hours the union spent in electing Barack Obama to the presidency. We can expect a repeat performance come 2012.  ..."  

Obama, Michael Jackson, ‘Empire of Illusion’ [01/11/10] VIDEO [54:55] "Never one to shrink from a strong debate, “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” author and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges comes out swinging in this lecture recorded last month, giving his audience at the New School in New York City more than a few big ideas to grapple with about our current president, the state of our democracy and the cancer of celebrity culture in contemporary American society. ..." 

Nine Months Later, Obama Plan To Help 1.5 Million Struggling Homeowners Yet To Launch [01/10/10] "Compounding the problem is the fact that millions of homeowners owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth, putting them "underwater." About a quarter of all homeowners with a mortgage have negative equity, according to real estate research firm First American CoreLogic. "The single largest problem [with the housing market] is negative equity," said Laurie S. Goodman, senior managing director at Amherst Securities and one of country's top mortgage bond analysts according to Institutional Investor magazine, before a Congressional panel last month. "The [government's] current modification program does not address negative equity, and is therefore destined to fail." ..."  

Commentary: Obama’s Obvious Disdain [01/09/10] "On Sunday morning, Instapundit drew attention to a startling photograph posted on the internet by the White House. In it stands President Obama in black tie, leaning against a wall, his arms folded, speaking not a word, and looking down on Vice-President Biden with hooded eyes. ... When this shot is shown in high resolution, as one perceptive observer soon noted, “Obama looks like he has contempt for Biden” –which, he added, may be the case “given Joe ‘The Gaff Machine’ Biden’s performance this year.” I am, he concluded, once again reminded “of how this administration seems to have become oblivious to the images they project to the public.” I wonder whether this last point is right. Obama and his minions are certainly capable of stumbling. Their handling of the recent attempt by Al Q’aeda to bring down a Northwest Airlines flight originating in Amsterdam is a case in point. But the posting of this photograph is by no means the first time that the current President of the United States has seized upon an opportunity to display in a manner oblique but unmistakable his disdain for another public figure. As I tried to document last year in a series of posts on Powerline,  Barack Obama is, in fact, a master of the insulting gesture and the calculated insult...."  

Obama’s Alternate Universe [01/09/10] By Scott Ritter  "The “war on terror” is a self-perpetuating problem with no solution. Worse, it ultimately will destroy America, not from any actions by whatever “enemy” America conjures up, but rather from the actions undertaken by America itself.  ..."  

Obama's Yemeni odyssey targets China [01/09/10] "The intervention in Yemen will go down as one of the smartest moves that he ever made for perpetuating the US's global hegemony. It is America's answer to China's surge. In effect, Uncle Sam is "marking territory" - like a dog on a lamppost. Russia has been toying with the idea of reopening its Soviet-era base in Aden. Well, the US has pipped Moscow in the race. The US has signaled that the odyssey doesn't end with Yemen. It is also moving into Somalia and Kenya. With that, the US establishes its military presence in an entire unbroken stretch of real estate all along the Indian Ocean's western rim. Chinese officials have of late spoken of their need to establish a naval base in the region. The US has now foreclosed China's options. ..."   

Obama Gives Foreign Cops Power Over Americans [01/07/10] "An amendment to an executive order secretly signed by President Barack Obama on December 16, 2009 gives police officers from foreign governments police powers in the United States.  What is most disturbing to police chiefs and officers in the US is that the President has provided foreign officers and international agencies exemptions from laws and regulations to which US cops must comply. For example, foreign cops operating in the US will not be forced to comply with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. The government has already given the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL, most of privileges enjoyed by foreign diplomats in the US. "This Obama executive order is a slap in the face of US cops -- who must adhere to laws and regulations including FOIA -- but also a slap in the face of American citizens who may be abused by these non-citizen cops from countries that don't recognize our constitutional protections," warns former New York City detective and Marine intelligence officer Sidney Franes. He also pointed out that INTERPOL member countries include Venezuela, Syria, Yemen, Bolivia, Cuba, Iran and Somalia -- all countries unfriendly to the U.S. When President Ronald Reagan's passed an executive order addressing INTERPOL, it clearly spelled out limitations such as requiring that INTERPOL operations be subject to several U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act. While many opposed Reagan's executive order, it was unchallenged due to the Cold War. "Under the Obama administration such limitations have been kicked to the wayside by a globalist White House," said Frances.  ..."  

Obama’s White House Press Corps warned about asking certain questions [01/06/10] "the Obama administration has made it known through White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and other White House Communications officials that certain questions posed by the reporters who cover the White House are definitely off-limits. On the banned list are any questions about Obama’s post-Columbia University employment with Business International Corporation (BIC), a global financial and political information company that WMR previously reported was a front for the CIA. White House Press Corps members have been quietly told that any questions related to BIC, Obama’s withheld records while he was a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles from 1979 to 1981, or his records at Columbia, are forbidden. At the same time he was attending Occidental, Obama, using the name Barry Soetoro and an Indonesian passport issued under the same name, traveled to Pakistan during the U.S. buildup to assist the Afghan mujaheddin. WMR has learned from informed sources in Kabul that Obama has been extremely friendly, through personal correspondence on White House letterhead, with a private military company that counts among its senior personnel a number of Afghan mujaheddin-Soviet war veterans who fought alongside the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Masood. The firm is also involved in counter-insurgency operations in Colombia, where Obama is building seven new military bases, and Iraq. In 1981, Obama spent time in Jacobabad and Karachi, Pakistan, and appeared to have an older American “handler,” possibly a CIA officer. WMR previously reported that Obama also crossed the border from Pakistan and spent some time in India. At the time of Obama’s stay in Pakistan, the country was being built up as a base for the anti-Soviet Afghan insurgency by President Carter’s National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and later by President Reagan’s CIA director William Casey. Obama has suspiciously refused to release his transcripts from Occidental or Columbia University and he has remained cagey about his post-Columbia employment with BIC. The word from the White House Press Corps is that if anyone were to ask Obama about BIC or possible past CIA work, domestically or abroad, the offending reporter would see a quick pulling of the White House press credential. ..."  

Obama tries to push "Al Qaeda" link to crotch bomber. [01/01/10] "In a marked shift from previous positions, senior Obama administration officials now say they are starting to see an al Qaeda connection to the attempted terror attack on a U.S.-bound airliner. In the days after the failed attempt on Christmas Day, administration officials steadfastly shied away from linking the incident to the terror group and, in some cases, said there was no evidence of such a connection. ..."     

Obama Moves To Curb Federal Secrets, Encourage Declassification [12/30/09] "Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered the federal government to rethink how it protects the nation's secrets, in a move that was expected to declassify more than 400 million pages of Cold War-era documents and curb the number of government records hidden from the public. ...Obama also reversed a decision by President George W. Bush that had allowed the intelligence community to block the release of a specific document, even if an interagency panel decided the information wouldn't harm national security....." 

Obama Administration Calls BS on Al Qaeda Claim [12/29/09] "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed “credit” for the failed attack on the Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, claiming that the attempted terrorist attack was retaliation for the December 17 airstrike against al Qaeda in Yemen. A senior administration official rejects this entirely, pointing out that Omar Abdulmutallab was in the field long before that airstrike. ..."  Note:  Actually, this is just a dodge to make it look like the Obama administration isn't part of this whole charade.

Obama Continues to Privatize America's Imperial Wars [12/26/09] "The Pentagon has methodically insulated its wars from most of U.S. civil society. "For the United States, war has devolved to a matter of contracts, a multi-trillion dollar cash cow for corporations, a self-perpetuating financial bubble that feeds the planet’s most dangerous and nonproductive, useless classes." The mercenary is the ideal corporate warrior... ..."  

Obama Year One: Betrayal and Failure [12/25/09] "After House passage in November, the Senate is now about to pass a stealth scheme to ration care and enrich insurers, the drug cartel, and large hospital chains, the way Washington always works. As president, he heads an imperial enterprise presided over by a war cabinet engaged in lawless militarism, aggressive wars, the permanent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the planned conquest of Eurasia, and world dominance overall, with a defense budget exceeding the rest of the world combined at a time America has no enemies. ..."  Part 2

Under the radar, Obama pushes for Patriot Act renewal [12/24/09] "With key sections of the U.S. Patriot Act set to expire Dec. 31, the Obama administration - essentially tiptoeing through the corridors of Congress and using the raucous health care debate as cover - has quietly maneuvered for renewal of the controversial provisions, which he opposed as a senator. ..."  Note: Obviously, it's not under the radar if we known about it. Obama has NO INTEGRITY.

Obama's Big Sellout  [12/11/09] by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine. "The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway ...Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers "at the expense of hardworking Americans." Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it's not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing. Then he got elected ...." Also see:  Matt Taibbi on Obama’s Economy  VIDEO  Matt Taibbi on Colbert Report  VIDEO  12/9/09

Nobel Committee Celebrates War As Peace [12/10/09] "On Thursday December 10 U.S. President Barack Obama will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced its selection for the prize on October 9 of this year, less than nine months after Obama assumed the mantle of the American presidency and less than a month after that announced the doubling of his nation’s troops for the world’s longest-running war in Afghanistan. The first contingent of new forces, consisting of 1,500 Marines, is to arrive next week, right before Christmas. “The ceremony takes place ten days after he announced plans to escalate the U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan by deploying another 30,000 American troops there.” ..."  

Obama: Can't Afford any Spending on Job Creation After Giving Trillions to Wall Street Economic Death Squad [12/06/09] ""It is not going to be possible for us to have a huge second stimulus, because frankly, we just don't have the money," Obama said. Before kicking off a summit meeting on job creation, the president said the federal government can't be counted on for most of the money this time. The two-year, $787 billion economic stimulus package he signed in February won't be the model for the next round of initiatives, he said ..."    

'Obama is a false prophet' - supporters get a dose of reality [12/06/09] "Some parishioners in the Church of Obama discovered last week that their spiritual leader is a false prophet. It was bound to happen eventually. Obama had become to his youthful supporters a vessel for all of their liberal hopes. They saw him as a transformational figure who would end war, save the Earth from global warming, restore the economy -- and still be home for dinner. They lashed out at anybody who dared to suggest that Obama was just another politician, subject to calculation, expediency and vanity like all the rest. Certainly, Obama gets some blame for encouraging the messianic cult as he stumped for change and hope. "I am asking you to stop settling for what the cynics say we have to accept," he would say as he wrapped up speeches. "Let us reach for what we know is possible: A nation healed. A world repaired. An America that believes again." ..."  

"Al-Qaeda plotting as I speak", says Barack Obama [12/03/09] "Barack Obama said new al-Qaeda attacks were "being plotted as I speak," as he announced the deployment of another 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan. "I make this decision because I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ..."  Note:  By US Intelligence estimates, there are about 100 'Al Qaeda' sitting on the shitter in Afghanistan. Obama is not only an asshole, but a deceptive liar and charlatan.

Following Bush-era argument, Obama attorneys push to weaken computer search protections [12/01/09] "Even though a Bush-era request to conduct blanket searches of computer files was rebuked by judges, the Obama administration is now pushing to have the decision reversed, according to court documents filed the week of Thanksgiving. U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, and twenty other government attorneys submitted a brief to the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, making a very extraordinary request. Federal prosecutors went too far when they seized the drug test results of 104 pro baseball players, according to a 9-2 "en banc" panel decision in August by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling included guidelines for computer search conduct designed to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights, in the style of Miranda rights. Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote at the time that the government “must maintain the privacy of materials that are intermingled with seizable materials, and … avoid turning a limited search for particular information into a general search of office file systems and computer databases ..."   

Obama Restores Mossad Spy’s Visa [11/21/09] "But given that we’re talking about Israel here, its spies seems to have the resilience of a Punch and Judy show clown. Knock ‘em down a few times and they bounce right back. At least, that’s what’s happened to Arad. After being appointed Bibi Netanyahu’s national security advisor, he gained a new lease on life. The Obama administration also restored Arad’s visa. ..."  

Obama warns Israel on settlements [11/19/09] "Barack Obama has said Israel's approval of 900 extra housing units at a settlement in East Jerusalem could lead to a "dangerous" situation. The Palestinians have refused to attend peace talks until Israel stops building settlements on occupied territory. Nearly 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built on occupied territory. The settlements are illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.  ..."   

Obama: "Continuation Of The National Emergency With Respect To Iran" [11/16/09] "How is Iran a threat to the United States? Doesn't the US "have the largest nuclear arsenal in the world"?  ..."  Note: Obviously it's a sequential zionist issue. 

Obama Rejects all Four Afghanistan Plans [11/12/09] "Multiple sources indicate Obama will reject all four plans he's had submitted to him. ..."   

Obama exploits Fort Hood massacre to promote US wars [11/12/09] "President Barack Obama used his speech at Tuesday’s service for the 13 men and women killed last week at Fort Hood, Texas to promote the two ongoing US wars and his own plan to escalate the intervention in Afghanistan. The president delivered his remarks as his administration is finalizing plans to send tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan. Obama spoke before thousands of Army troops as well as relatives of the 12 soldiers and one civilian who were killed last Thursday in a shooting spree allegedly carried out by US Army Major Nidal Hasan..."  

Obama Administration Continues Mind Set of US Military Global Dominance [11/11/09] "The Barack Obama administration is continuing the neo-conservative agenda of US military domination of the world— albeit with perhaps a kinder-gentler face. While overt torture is now forbidden for the CIA and Pentagon, and symbolic gestures like the closing of the Guantanamo prison are in evidence, a unilateral military dominance policy, expanding military budget, and wars of occupation and aggression will likely continue unabated. ..."  

Obama Resuming G.W. Bush’s “Extraordinary Renditions” [11/03/09] "Even though Barack Obama, the candidate, pledged to end "the practice of shipping away prisoners in the dead of night to be tortured in far-off countries," his FBI has been rendering kidnap victims to the U.S. The practice is still kidnapping, however; and it’s still illegal. Unlucky victim No. 1 was Raymond Azar, 45, flown from Afghanistan to Alexandria, Va., not to a foreign country. The construction manager for Sima International, a Lebanese outfit that did work for the U.S. military, Azar said he was tortured by his abductors. He might just as well have been flow to Egypt under the Bushies... ..."  

How the Obama Administration Is Fudging the Jobs Saved/Created Numbers [11/02/09]   Note: Reports just released by the Obama administration claim New York state has "created/saved" 40,625 jobs -- including 25,526 in New York City, according to NyPo. That number was based on 19,518 kids who took part in a SEVEN WEEK summer employment program, NyPo reports a city official as stating.

Rahm Emanuel to Disarm America:"#1 Issue", Gun Owners are Terrorists [11/01/09] VIDEO Note: "The agenda is to disarm all law abiding citizens - criminals are self-excluded based on their vocation."

Obama's latest use of "secrecy" to shield presidential lawbreaking [11/01/09] "The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state secrets" privilege -- which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among loyal Democrats (when used by Bush/Cheney) -- to attempt to block courts from ruling on the legality of the government's domestic surveillance activities. ..."  

Obama Every Bit as Bad as Bush/Cheney on Patriot Act [10/26/09] "While battling the FBI’s expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. 8) that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials with amendments further preserving it. ..."   

Obama's Kids Not Getting H1N1 Vaccine Shot [10/26/09] "Sec. Sebelius says that children are the most susceptible to H1N1 flu, and should be vaccinated against it. On October 8, 2009, it was announced that President Obama’s school age daughters have not been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus. Note: See the rest of this story in the Biological news section further toward the top of this website.

White House boasts: We 'control' news media [10/20/09] "Obama's presidential campaign focused on "making" the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was "controlled," White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a videotaped conference. "Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn't absolutely control," said Dunn. ..."     

Obama Steps Up CIA Drone Bombings Despite Civilian Deaths [10/20/09] "Based on a study just completed by the non-profit, New America Foundation of Washington, D.C., “the number of drone strikes has risen dramatically since Obama became President,” Mayer reports. ..."   

Axelrod Huddles With Chicago Mob Linked Giannoulias to discuss Illinois Senate race [10/19/09] "Illinois Senate hopeful Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois state treasurer, huddled with White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the state of play of the open Senate seat once held by President Obama. The meeting was not supposed to be known to the public, but Giannoulias was recognized by reporters while on the White House grounds. Not generally known: Giannoulias also met with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee chief Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and DSCC staffers and with key members of the Democratic labor union community. ..."  Note: That the White House is tied in to the Chicago Mob and the Mossad is beyond anyone's worst nightmare ... so it can't possibly be so, despite clear evidence to the contrary ... "doublethink" is the new psychological stability amongst these folks.   

Commentary:  Obama's unrestrained FBI  [10/18/09] "As described by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an ever-watchful guardian of the Constitution, these Attorney General's Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations authorize the FBI — without going to a court — "to open investigative 'assessments' of any American without any factual predicate or suspicion. Such 'assessments' allow the use of intrusive techniques to surreptitiously collect information on people suspected of no wrongdoing and no connection with any foreign entity. These inquiries may include the collection of information from online sources and commercial databases." The press has largely been uninterested in this suspension of the Bill of Rights — but we know a lot about David Letterman. ..." 

Majority of Nobel jury 'objected to Obama prize' [10/16/09] "Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee had objections to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to US President Barack Obama, the Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) reported Thursday..."   

Obama offers no relief to growing army of jobless workers [10/09/09] "In the face of the mounting unemployment crisis, the Obama administration has no plans to offer serious relief to the 15 million workers out of work and the millions more facing job losses and economic ruin in the coming months. Obama signaled with his lauding of "our entrepreneurs" that no measures would be taken to address the social crisis that impinged on the profit interests of big business. ..."  Note: Under Obama's watch, this economy has morphed from potential "hope and change" to "shock and awe" for those millions of US citizens out of work, and unable to find work. 

Obama To Accept Taliban In Afghanistan's Future: Senior Official [10/09/09] "President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan's political future and will determine how many more U.S. troops to send to the war based only on keeping al-Qaida at bay, a senior administration official said Thursday ..."  Note: Recall that at one time, the Taliban destroyed most of Afghanistan's opium crop ... the US gets $80 billion a year for that, some say.

US ‘will’ disregard borders in terrorist hunt, says Obama [10/08/09] "Afghanistan and Pakistan are not the Pentagon’s sole targets in its war on terror, says Obama adding that the US will not hesitate to attack anywhere it deems a threat ..."  Note: We have enough terrorists of our own, that operate from DHS, CIA, NSA, etc., within our borders; of course a country cannot clean it's own house without blowback from the population.

Dick Armey: Obamacare Will be 'Ruthless' to Patients, Elderly [10/07/09] "A government-run healthcare system favored by many Democrats would be "ruthless" in its treatment of healthcare recipients, warns former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. In a wide-ranging exclusive Newsmax interview, the Texas Republican also said Sarah Palin will prove to be a far better proponent of small-government conservatism than John McCain was in 2008. And Armey agrees with House Minority Leader John Boehner's recent assertion to Newsmax that President Obama's appointment of many so-called "czars" constitutes a "circumvention" of the Constitution. ..."   

Obama Administration Admits Cap-&-Trade Will Be Far More Expensive Than Advertised [10/05/09] "Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost onto consumers." ...The report shows that the cap and-trade bill the White House is pushing in Congress — in which companies have to buy “allowances” for carbon emissions — is far more expensive for Americans than advertised. Sure, everyone knew the firms would pass these costs along to customers. But supporters of the bill claimed that consumers would face only “nominal” increases — barely $200 a year. Wrong. The Treasury analysis puts the actual nationwide cost of cap-and-trade at some $200 billion a year — or $1,761 per household. That figure is very close to the $1,870 amount estimated by the Heritage Foundation prior to the vote in the House. Families will be hit with a steep climate-change tax, after all. And that will certainly include working- and middle- class folks who make less than $250,000 a year. Second, the analysis was kept secret and only recently leaked. That directly violates President Obama’s vows of transparency ..."

Obama agrees to keep Israel's nukes 'secret' [10/04/09] "President Obama has reaffirmed a 4-decade-old secret understanding that has allowed Israel to keep a nuclear arsenal without opening it to international inspections, three officials familiar with the understanding said. The officials, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were discussing private conversations, said Mr. Obama pledged to maintain the agreement when he first hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in May. Under the understanding, the U.S. has not pressured Israel to disclose its nuclear weapons or to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which could require Israel to give up its estimated several hundred nuclear bombs. Israel had been nervous that Mr. Obama would not continue the 1969 understanding because of his strong support for nonproliferation and priority on preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. The U.S. and five other world powers made progress during talks with Iran in Geneva on Thursday as Iran agreed in principle to transfer some potential bomb fuel out of the country and to open a recently disclosed facility to international inspection. Mr. Netanyahu let the news of the continued U.S.-Israeli accord slip last week in a remark that attracted little notice. He was asked by Israel's Channel 2 whether he was worried that Mr. Obama's speech at the U.N. General Assembly, calling for a world without nuclear weapons, would apply to Israel. .... The secret understanding could undermine the Obama administration's goal of a world without nuclear weapons. In particular, it could impinge on U.S. efforts to bring into force the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, two agreements that U.S. administrations have argued should apply to Israel in the past. They would ban nuclear tests and the production of material for weapons. A Senate staffer familiar with the May reaffirmation, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue, said, "What this means is that the president gave commitments that politically he had no choice but to give regarding Israel's nuclear program. However, it calls into question virtually every part of the president's nonproliferation agenda. The president gave Israel an NPT treaty get out of jail free card." ..."  

New details on Obama’s CIA front employer [09/24/09] "WMR has obtained additional details on Business International Corporation (BIC), the CIA front company where President Obama spent a year working after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. BIC used journalists as non-official cover (NOC) agents around the world. The firm published weekly and fortnightly newsletters for business executives, including Business International, Business Europe, Business Latin America, and Business Asia. On February 24, 2009, WMR reported: “For one year, Obama worked as a researcher in BIC’s financial services division where he wrote for two BIC publications, Financing Foreign Operations and Business International Money Report, a weekly newsletter. ..."  Note: Of course Obama is a CIA plant, groomed for this job for a long, long time.  

Obama helps strengthen General Electric-Putin ties  [09/18/09] "Reuters reports an interesting nugget in the wake of President Barack Obama's decision to grant Vladimir Putin his wish and kill the Eastern European missile shield: Shortly after the pullback on the shield programme was announced, Russia's government said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would meet several U.S. executives on Friday from firms including General Electric, Morgan Stanley as well as TPG, one of the world's largest private equity firms General Electric may be the company with the closest ties to the Obama administration (if not, GE is second only to Goldman Sachs), and here we see the company benefiting from an abrupt foreign policy change made by President Obama. But GE isn't the only company benefiting. Reuters paints the broader picture: "U.S. companies have arguably lost out to some European companies in joint ventures, and better diplomacy will likely improve the chances for investors in the strategic sectors of the Russian economy," said Carlo Gallo, senior Russia analyst at London-based consultancy Control Risks. GE CEO Jeff Immelt sits on Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and GE owns MSNBC, the network famously friendly to Obama...."  Note: Interesting. 

Obama Supports Extending Provisions of the Patriot Act [09/16/09] "The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year, the U.S. Justice Department told Congress in a letter made public Tuesday ..."  Note: Of course. It's just an extension of the last administration.  Related:  Obama extends 9/11 national emergency [09/12/09] "President Obama said the terrorist threat of further attacks on the United States is continuing and remains an "immediate threat ..."   

Obama, the Light Touch [09/15/09] "Far from eagerly micromanaging the companies the government owns, Mr. Obama and his economic team have often labored mightily to avoid exercising control even when government money was the only thing keeping some companies afloat ... The other possible justification for this policy is that the government is somehow incompetent in a way that a private equity investor – say, Cerberus, the previous owner of Chrysler – is not. I know there are many people who think this is the case. But first of all, even if you are the Treasury Secretary and you happen to think that the people who work for you are incompetent, there are still other solutions; for example, you could hire KKR to be the trustee for your 60% stake in GM and act on your behalf, rather than just turning your back on your multi-billion-dollar investment of taxpayer money. (I’m not recommending this, just pointing it out as an option.) And more importantly, why is President Obama – the man who, last Wednesday night, said, “[Our predecessors] also understood that the danger of too much government is matched by the perils of too little; that without the leavening hand of wise policy, markets can crash, monopolies can stifle competition, and the vulnerable can be exploited” – subscribing to the anti-government caricature of right-wing talk radio? Does he really think that the federal government, and the dozens of talented people he hired and appointed, is too incompetent to do what any twenty-something Ivy League graduate with the connections necessary to raise a $100 million fund can do?"  Note: Comment at the bottom of the article: "Yes, strange that a man with virtually no experience in executive management or a deep understanding of private sector economics would appear not to know what he is doing. That certainly is odd." Sequentials have placed themselves 'in charge' - that's why.

Lobbyist Exposes Obama's True Views on Second Amendment [09/15/09] "My name is Rich Pearson and I have been active in the firearm rights movement for over 40 years. For the past 15 years, I have served in the Illinois state capitol as the chief lobbyist for the Illinois State Rifle Association. I lobbied Barack Obama extensively while he was an Illinois State Senator. As a result of that experience, I know Obama’s attitudes toward guns and gun owners better than anyone. The truth be told, in all my years in the Capitol I have never met a legislator who harbors more contempt for the law-abiding firearm owner than Barack Obama. Although Obama claims to be an advocate for the 2nd Amendment, his voting record in the Illinois Senate paints a very different picture. While a state senator, Obama voted for a bill that would ban nearly every hunting rifle, shotgun and target rifle owned by Illinois citizens. That same bill would authorize the state police to raid homes of gun owners and forcibly confiscate banned guns. Obama supported a bill that would shut down law-abiding firearm manufacturers including Springfield Armory, Armalite, Rock River Arms and Les Baer. Obama also voted for a bill that would prohibit law-abiding citizens from purchasing more than one gun per month. Without a doubt, Barack Obama has proven himself to be an enemy of the law abiding firearm owner. At the same time, Obama has proven himself to be a friend to the hardened criminal. While a state senator, Obama voted 4 times against legislation that would allow a homeowner to use a firearm in defense of home and family ... The Obama I know is a stony-faced liar who has honed his skill at getting what he wants — so long as people are willing to give it to him ..."   

Obama is first American president to chair 15-member UN Security Council in October [09/10/09] "Barack Obama will cement the new co-operative relationship between the US and the United Nations this month when he becomes the first American president to chair its 15-member Security Council ... The topic for the summit-level session of the council on September 24 is nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament – one of several global challenges that the US now wants to see addressed at a multinational level. “The council has a very important role to play in preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons, and it’s the world’s principal body for dealing with global security cooperation,” Susan Rice, US envoy to the UN, said last week. Her remarks were the latest by the Obama administration to emphasize a shift from the strategy of the previous Bush administration, sometimes criticised by its UN partners for seeking to use the world body principally to endorse its own unilateral policies. The US currently holds the month-long rotating presidency of the Security Council."  Note: Will there be an "October Surprise" that the Security Council will become engaged in dealing with?   

Obama CIA Roots  [ 09/09/09 ]  "Of all the outside-the mainstream notions I've posited on this blog, the one that annoys  the most people is my suggestion that the CIA recruited young Barack Obama during his days at Occidental College. I would further suggest that the Agency link runs in the family. I believe that, at an earlier time, the Agency (or some other branch of the intelligence community) may have recruited his mother, Ann Dunham. ... The eye-opener here concerns Obama's first job out of college. He was recruited by Business International Corporation, accused of functioning as a CIA front company. You don't have to take the word of John Pilger, the man in the video. Here's Wikipedia: "The company has been identified as cover organization for the Central Intelligence Agency, e.g. see Lobster Magazine, issue 14 in 1987. According to a lengthy article in the New York Times in 1977, the co-founder of the company told the newspaper that "Eldridge Haynes [the other founder] had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960". I see no reason to presume that the CIA/BIC relationship ended in 1960. Lobster is a quirky but reliable publication. ... William Blum, a left-wing CIA expert, made the same catch: In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Fathers", Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his employer as "a consulting house to multinational corporations" in New York City, and his functions as a "research assistant" and "financial writer". The odd part of Obama's story is that he doesn't mention the name of his employer. However, a New York Times story of 2007 identifies the company as Business International Corporation. ... In his book, not only doesn't Obama mention his employer's name; he fails to say when he worked there, or why he left the job. Obama's bios are as important for what they leave out as for what they reveal. I first became suspicious of his now-infamous trip to Pakistan (which he took in the summer between Occidental and Columbia) because he refused to mention this adventure in his books. Think of it: We are talking about a man who compiled not one but two autobiographical works before the age of 46. We are talking about an ambitious politician intent on establishing his foreign policy cred. Yet he refused to mention a dangerous trip to Pakistan which he made at a time when travel to that country was discouraged by the State Department. That country was then the focus of the CIA's largest covert operation, the supplying of the Afghan mujahadeen. While there, this callow college kid met with one of the most powerful men in Pakistan -- a meeting arranged by an unnamed personage with the American Embassy. (Spook-watchers know what that means.) .... " 

White House Drafting Health Care Bill [ 09/04/09 ] "CNN has learned that the White House is quietly working to draft health care legislation after allowing Congress to work on its own for months. Multiple sources close to the process tell CNN that while the plan is uncertain, they are preparing for the possibility they could deliver their own legislation to Capitol Hill sometime after the President Barack Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday...."  Related: See White House's Health Industry Guest List

Obama Regulation Czar Advocated Removing People’s Organs Without Explicit Consent   [ 09/05/09 ] "Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken. Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done. Cass Sunstein views you as a "harvest" ..."   

Obama runs into resistance over school speech  [ 09/05/09 ] "A speech by President Obama has prompted accusations of "indoctrinating" America's youth and led to calls for "transparency" -- nearly a week before the address is scheduled to be delivered to the nation's schoolchildren. The U.S. Department of Education last week announced plans for the president to speak "directly to the nation's schoolchildren about persisting and succeeding in school," as Secretary Arne Duncan wrote in an e-mail to principals at more than 100,000 schools. The 15- to 20-minute address is scheduled for Tuesday, the first day of school for many districts, at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. It will be broadcast over the Internet, on C-SPAN and via satellite. But the plan has encountered resistance this week, most notably in a statement from Jim Greer, chairman of the Florida Republican Party: "As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," the letter begins. "The idea that schoolchildren across our nation will be forced to watch the president justify his plans for government-run healthcare, banks and automobile companies, increasing taxes on those who create jobs, and racking up more debt than any other president, is not only infuriating, but goes against beliefs of the majority of Americans, while bypassing American parents through an invasive abuse of power." As the statement drew attention from blogs and cable TV news shows, some conservative sites began calling for a "national skip day" to prevent children from being exposed to "Obama propaganda." Others zeroed in on a set of activities -- posted on the Education Department's website -- designed for teachers and students to use before, during and after the speech ..."   

Obama White House Has Secret Plan To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking Websites   [ 09/03/09 ] "NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites ...."

Senior UBS Official, Key Donor Shares Some of Obama's Down Time  [ 08/26/09 ] "One of President Obama's golfing buddies Monday was a top donor to his campaign and the president of a bank at the center of a U.S. investigation into illegal tax shelters. Robert Wolf, the president of UBS Americas, a Swiss-based bank, joined Obama at the elite, and difficult, Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs. Deputy press secretary Bill Burton described the two men as "friends."  According to news reports, Wolf and Obama met late in 2006 as the then-Illinois senator was about to launch his presidential bid. Wolf raised more than $250,000 for Obama's presidential bid, according to a Post report last year. ..."

Panetta Threatened To Quit, Got In "Screaming Match" Over Torture Probe   [ 08/25/09 ] "A "profanity-laced screaming match" at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com. According to intelligence officials, Panetta erupted in a tirade in July 2009 during a meeting with a senior White House staff member. Panetta was reportedly upset over plans by Attorney General Eric Holder to open a criminal investigation of allegations that CIA officers broke the law in carrying out certain interrogation techniques that President Obama has termed "torture ..."  Note: Panetta tried to suppress investigation of CIA by Holder. Obama White House v. CIA

Obama Approves New Elite Team Of Interrogators   [ 08/25/09 ] "President Barack Obama has approved creation of a new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit to be supervised by the White House, a top aide said Monday, further distancing his administration from President George W. Bush's detainee policies. The administration has also decided that all U.S. interrogators will follow the rules for detainees laid out by the Army Field Manual, according to senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the decision. That decision aims to end years of fierce debate over how rough U.S. personnel can get with terror suspects in custody ..."

Democratic Payback to Unions: $10B aimed at union retirees and Democrats' union allies  [ 08/25/09 ] "... $10-billion provision tucked deep inside thousands of pages of health care overhaul bills that could help the UAW's retiree health-care plan and other union-backed plans. It would see the government -- at least temporarily -- pay 80 cents on the dollar to corporate and union insurance plans for claims between $15,000 and $90,000 for retirees age 55 to 64 ..."  Note: How much does the Chicago mob make?

Most of Obama’s Top Appointees Are Not in Place [ 08/24/09 ] "As Obama tries to turn around a summer of setbacks, he finds himself still playing without most of his own team. Seven months into his presidency, fewer than half of his top appointees are in place advancing his agenda. Of more than 500 senior policymaking positions requiring Senate confirmation, just 43 percent have been filled so far — a reflection of a White House that grew more cautious after several nominations blew up last spring, a Senate that is intensively investigating nominees and a legislative agenda that has consumed both. The sluggish pace has kept Mr. Obama from having his own people enacting programs central to his mission. He is trying to fix the financial markets but does not have an assistant treasury secretary for financial markets. He is spending more money on transportation than anyone since Dwight D. Eisenhower but does not have his own inspector general watching how the dollars are used. He is fighting two wars but does not have an Army secretary. He sent Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Africa to talk about international development but does not have anyone running the Agency for International Development. He has invited major powers to a summit on nuclear nonproliferation but does not have an assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation. He has vowed to improve government efficiency but does not have the chief performance officer he promised ..."  Note: ... Obama doesn't need appointees who will 'get in the way' of the agenda ... and he is a sequential, which limits is response-ability in situations.

 Obama's Doomed Utopia [ 08/20/09 ] "August is normally a time for vacation and reinvigoration, for this author who is now in attendance at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Sweden. But while he is speaking of the virtues of free markets and the rule of law, the home front reveals a summer of intense confrontation and disillusionment as two non-market issues, health care and taxes, confront a restless and bellicose public. And herein lies a political tale about the importance of principle in politics. Barack Obama was a great, if empty, orator when running for office. He projected an elusive utopian vision of hope and change that won over the hearts of those who postponed thinking about how the brutal fact of scarce resources can stymie even his grandiose plans for social reform. Unfortunately, his campaign skills have not easily transferred to the humdrum business of governance. So much so, that his best chance for reelection requires the remainder of his legislative program to fail. Why? For decidedly academic reasons: ..."

 Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling [ 08/19/09 ] "You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil. The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan. The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a "preliminary commitment" letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas ..."

 Israelis sour on Rahm Emanuel  [ 08/18/09 ] "As the Obama administration presses Israel to cease settlement expansion as part of a renewed push for a Middle East peace deal—a course of action that many Israelis have interpreted as evidence of the president’s favoritism towards Palestinians—Israelis have increasingly focused their disappointment not on Obama, but rather on his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. An observant Jew with deep ties to Israel, Emanuel is viewed as something of a native son, his rise through the ranks of American politics celebrated by Israelis who reveled in details such as his childhood summers spent in Israel and his volunteer stint during the first Gulf War in an Israeli military program for civilians. When Emanuel was tapped to be Obama’s chief of staff, a headline in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz kvelled “Obama's first pick: Israeli Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff,” while the Jewish news

 Obamacare: Unions stand to get big payoff of $10 billion to supplement failing pension plans  [ 08/16/09 ] "It isn't just out of the goodness of their hearts that Big Labor is gearing up to spend millions to help President Obama to jam Obamacare down the throats of the American people. The unions stand to get a big payoff of $10 billion to supplement their failing pension plans ..."  Related: Union thugs try to silence critics of Obamacare | Chicago's politicians have got ethics covered

 Obama, Bush and the Limits of Power  [ 08/16/09 ] "It should now be beyond dispute that the Obama administration represents a continuation, solidification and expansion of the Bush legacy, with some minor changes in some areas and a vast acceleration of government growth in others. And yet, as we can joyously witness, the president is running into problems ..." 

 Obama To OK $15 Billion For Israel's Air Force  [ 08/16/09 ] "President Obama to OK Israel's plans to receive seventy-five US F-35 fighters, indicating a desire to be able to penetrate into Iran and Syria, a report says. They will buy (be given) another fifty F-35 jets soon after. The total cost will be over $15 billion in 2009 dollars ..." 

Essay: Demolition Man: Building the Anti-America  [ 08/10/09 ]  By Nancy Coppock.  "Barack Obama is proving himself to be a destructive nihilist with capitalism, the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and the traditional American experience in his crosshairs ... While many have discussed Obama psychologically as having a narcissistic personality disorder with political leanings toward Marxist/Fascism, we have not fully considered Obama's philosophy. If personal philosophy is the set point upon which ideas and solutions are created and put into action, then we should be able to reverse engineer an individual's philosophy by noting their ideas and solutions ... President Truman declared, "The buck stops here." This was amended by Clinton, who we joked said, "The buck never got here." For Obama, we must appreciate that he believes he has escaped the matrix, and accept that "There is no buck." ... The destructive nature of Obama's philosophy requires the wealth of our nation, which is the inner spirit of the individual's desire to better his own life and that of his family, to be deprived of life-giving oxygen at every opportunity. And not only for Americans, but for any individual petitioning their government for individual liberty as witnessed by Obama's reactions to protests in Iran and the desire to adhere to the rule of law in Honduras ... The empirical Obama is an absent void. When Obama emphatically says he doesn't want to run the banks, Wall Street, or the auto industry, he is telling the truth in a sideways sort of way because he abhors work with a passion. However, having American industry and free markets under oligarchical control is a different ball of wax that is to be melted and recast as the reverse of its current form. The Left's original slogan "Don't trust your government" has morphed into "We know better than you" ...."" 

Obama’s Embrace of a Bush 'Signing Statement' Tactics Riles Congress   [ 08/09/09 ]  "Obama has issued signing statements claiming the authority to bypass dozens of provisions of bills enacted into law since he took office, provoking mounting criticism by lawmakers from both parties ..."

White House struggles to fill cyber czar post [ 08/05/09 ] Related: White House's Cybersecurity Czar Resigns "Melissa Hathaway, who completed the Obama administration's cybersecurity review in April, said in an interview that she was leaving for personal reasons. "It's time to pass the torch," she said, adding that she and her colleagues have provided an "initial down payment for what's needed to start to address cybersecurity." In the past year, intelligence officials have grown increasingly concerned about Chinese and Russian cyberspies and U.S. infrastructure and military networks. People familiar with the matter said Ms. Hathaway has been "spinning her wheels" in the White House, where the president's economic advisers sought to marginalize her politically ..."  

Obama Puts Monsanto Lobbyist In Charge Of Food Safety  [ 07/25/09 ]  "The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke. Here's the back story..."

Obama administration appointee Sunstein is author of book on gagging online speech  [ 07/16/09 ] "Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been appointed to a shadowy post that will grant him powers. Advance copies of Sunstein's new book, "On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done," have gone out to reviewers ahead of its September publication date, but considering the prominence with which Sunstein is about to be endowed, his worrying views are fair game now. Sunstein is President Obama's choice to head the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.  ...  Sunstein was appointed, no doubt, off the success of "Nudge," his previous book, which suggests that government ought to gently force people to be better human beings ...  Consider how well this nudge would work. You blog about Obama-Ayers. You get a letter claiming that your facts are wrong so you should remove your post. You refuse. If, after a court proceeding proves simply that you are wrong (but not that you committed libel, which when a public figure is the target is almost impossible), you lose, the penalty is . . . you must take down your post.How long would it take for a court to sort out the truth? Sasha and Malia will be running for president by then. Nobody will care anymore. But it will give politicians the ability to tie up their online critics in court. ... Sunstein, trying to be fair, argues that libel awards should be capped at $15,000, or at least limited for anyone demonstrating financial hardship. But $15K is the limit you'd pay to your opponent. The legal bill is the scary part, and the reason bloggers already have plenty of reason to be careful about what they say, even if they don't much fear a libel conviction. Sunstein dreams of an impossibly virtuous America: "We could also imagine a future in which those who spread false rumors are categorized as such, discounted and marginalized . . . people would approach rumors skeptically even they provide comfort and fit their own biases." But if his chilling wind doesn't work, Sunstein may try to make good on the implicit threat that runs through his book: that he would redefine libel as the spread of false information and hold everyone up the ladder responsible."

Obama administration plans forceful policy to end conflicts in Africa  [ 07/12/09 ] "The US is planning a dramatically more assertive policy in Africa, sometimes backed by a threat of force, to end conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria that are seen as among the principal obstacles to the continent's revival. Barack Obama is to address Ghana's parliament tomorrow on his first visit to Africa as president with a speech that is expected to emphasize that the key to prosperity is democratic, accountable government. But an important part of the new administration's policy will focus on ending key conflicts through more forceful diplomatic initiatives after years of drift by the Bush administration ..."

 Obama threatens to veto law decreasing White House secrecy  [ 07/11/09 ]  "Barack Obama’s first veto threat was aimed at “taking out” Boeing’s F-22 fighter jet, which critics have long maintained is a legacy fighter craft left over from the Soviet era that has no practical use today. His second? Telling Congress he’ll veto the House Intelligence authorization bill if they include a provision expanding secret congressional briefings to include the full intelligence committees from the current “Gang of 8″ congressmembers now. Under current law, the President’s surrogates must brief the House and Senate leaders of both parties and the chambers’ respective intelligence committees (the “Gang of 8″) when covert government activity takes place ..."

 Powers won't wait for Iran to build nuclear weapon: Obama   [ 07/11/09 ]  "US President Barack Obama cranked up pressure on Iran by saying Friday world leaders were "appalled" at post-poll violence and would not stand idly by while Iran builds a nuclear weapon. Welcoming a rare consensus on Iran among the globe's most powerful nations at the L'Aquila summit, Obama told reporters he hoped Tehran would recognize that "world opinion is very clear". The G8 joint declaration expressed "serious concern" over post-election violence in Iran but called for a negotiated resolution to the standoff over Tehran's nuclear programme, giving it until September's G20 summit. "And that's been always our premise, is that we provide that door," said Obama. "But we also say we're not going to just wait indefinitely and allow for the development of the nuclear weapon, the breach of international treaties, and wake up one day and find ourselves in a much worse situation and unable to act ..." 

 Biden Admission: Obama Plan Doomed  [ 07/10/09 ]  "Vice President Joseph Biden's admission that the Obama Administration's economic recovery plan was predicated on egregiously inaccurate forecasts consigns the entire effort to failure, predicts Gerald Celente. "The plan is based upon false premises," said Celente, Director of The Trends Research Institute, referring to White House projections used to sell the stimulus package to the nation ..."

 Creepy, revealing quote from White House staffer [ 07/2/09 ]  "This has become an emerging theme among both the White House and House leadership: that progressive members of Congress have an obligation to carry out "the wishes of the President" even when they disagree (now, apparently, it's "stunning" when they defy his dictates). That was the same subservient mentality that led House Democrats who admitted they opposed the war supplemental spending and/or the foreign bank bailout to nonetheless vote for the bill: because they President favored it. The duty of Congress is not to obey the wishes of the President ..."

 Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress [ 06/28/09 ]  "In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress. During those two years, the Joyce Foundation gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself "North America's only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide ..." Related: Obama’s involvement in Chicago Climate Exchange–the rest of the story | Climate Bill Passes in House by Seven Votes | Business group opposes climate change bill | Inhofe: Senate Will Not Pass Cap-and-Trade 

 Obama Authorizes Suppression of Information About World Bank and IMF Activities [ 06/28/09 ]  "President Obama signed the $106 billion war-spending bill into law Friday, but not without taking a page from his predecessor and ignoring a few elements in the legislation. Obama included a five-paragraph signing statement with the bill, including a final paragraph that outlined his objections to at least four areas of the bill. The Obama administration announced in the statement it would disregard provisions of the legislation that, among other things, would compel the Obama administration to pressure the World Bank to strengthen labor and environmental standards and require the Treasury department to report to Congress on the activities of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) ..." 

 Obama Claims CIA Involvement In Iran “Patently False”  [ 06/25/09 ]  "President Barack Obama was forced to address accusations that the CIA was involved in fomenting the post-election riots in Iran during his White House press conference yesterday, claiming the allegations were “patently false,” despite the fact that the U.S. government publicly gave the CIA approval to undertake a destabilization campaign in Iran more than two years ago." 

 Newsweek: Obama Closes Doors On Transparency [ 06/21/09 ]  "As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama's "clean coal" policies. One reason: the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged "presidential communications." The refusal, approved by White House counsel Greg Craig's office, is the latest in a series of cases in which Obama officials have opted against public disclosure. Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a "new era" of openness, "nothing has changed," says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases. "For a president who said he was going to bring unprecedented transparency to government, you would certainly expect more than the recycling of old Bush secrecy policies." The hard line appears to be no accident. After Obama's much-publicized Jan. 21 "transparency" memo, administration lawyers crafted a key directive implementing the new policy that contained a major loophole, according to FOIA experts ..."

 Obama’s Insurance Proposal May Grab Power From States  [ 06/21/09 ]  "President Barack Obama’s plan to create a U.S. insurance office after the $182.5 billion bailout of American International Group Inc. may take powers from the states that have overseen the industry for more than 135 years. Obama called for the creation of a federal Office of National Insurance within the Treasury Department to monitor the industry, represent U.S. interests in international insurance agreements, and look for gaps in state oversight. The proposal was announced this week as part of Obama’s planned overhaul of the U.S. financial regulatory system. The administration endorsed broader federal oversight of firms posing a threat to the financial system, and said more regulation may be needed for parts of companies outside the reach of state supervision. AIG’s Financial Products unit, which brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy after it sold credit protection to firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., wasn’t under the states’ umbrella. “AIG highlighted gaps in our insurance regulatory system,” said Leigh Ann Pusey, president of the American Insurance Association, which has pushed for federal oversight for a decade. “We had 20 different states with authority over 72 insurance subsidiaries of AIG just in this country.” The states didn’t work together “until the crisis hit,” she said ..."

 Senator Byrd Says Obama's Czars Unconstitutional  [ 06/16/09 ] "Last week President Obama appointed yet another “czar” with massive government power, answering only to him. Even before this latest appointment, the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate wrote President Obama a letter saying that these czars are unconstitutional. President Obama’s “czar strategy” is an unprecedented power grab centralizing authority in the White House, outside congressional oversight and in violation of the Constitution ..."

 Business increasingly nervous about the heavy hand of the Obama Administration  [ 06/15/09 ] "It remains an open question whether the much-heralded "green shoots" truly signal a turn toward a U.S. economic recovery. What's clearer is that the business backlash against government is well under way. Not so long ago, business and policymakers alike were calling for Uncle Sam to step in and stop the bleeding—in the financial sector, at the automakers, in the housing and job markets. Most of the sniping that occurred came as various government figures criticized one another for doing too little. Now, however, the grousing is shifting to arguments that the government is overstepping that subjective line between helpful intervention and harmful meddling, including in areas where business only recently welcomed Uncle Sam's dollars. "They're making business decisions in a way that is political," John A. Allison IV, chairman of BB&T Bank (BBT), told BusinessWeek at a Beltway gala on June 11. BB&T was cleared this past week to return $3.1 billion in federal bailout money. "Where does it stop? The people making the decisions don't have the knowledge of the industries, of the institutions, to make good business decisions ..."

 Obama proposes reining in spending on federal health programs for poor, elderly [ 06/15/09 ] "President Obama proposed today to rein in spending on federal health programs for the elderly and the poor by an additional $313 billion over the next decade, bringing his total proposed savings to nearly $950 billion -- enough to cover the full cost of sweeping health reform, a top adviser said ..."

 Obama: Where have all his records gone?  [ 06/12/09 ] "Footprints of president's own history either vanish or remain covered up .."

 Obama Intelligence pick bows out over CIA tactic ties  [ 06/06/09 ] "President Barack Obama's pick for intelligence chief at the Homeland Security Department withdrew from consideration Friday amid questions about his role in the CIA's interrogations of suspected terrorists. Philip Mudd was scheduled to appear next week before senators considering his nomination as undersecretary of intelligence and analysis. He notified the White House on Friday that he was withdrawing his name because he did not want to be a distraction. At issue was the extent of Mudd's involvement in the interrogation program while he was a senior CIA official in the Bush administration. The interrogation methods have been criticized by Democratic lawmakers and Obama ..." Note: Yep. His name was Mudd.

 AP: Obama's Islam Success Depends On Israel  [ 06/06/09 ] Related: Israel: Obama's Speech Won't Change Our Settlement Policy  

 "Obama Has German Roots"  [ 06/04/09 ] " ... Obama's 6th great-grandfather Johann Conrad Woelflin was born Jan. 29, 1729, in Besigheim, a small town north of Stuttgart on the Enz river where it feeds into the Neckar...."  Note: They are attempting to create a connection which is fallacious and illogical ... using the same principle, everyone could be proven to have 'roots' virtually anywhere. Big deal ... of course, the whole dynamic depends on body-id belief systems, outside of which the concept has no existence. I can't wait to see the "Obama Has Jewish Roots" version when it comes out. The sequential preoccupation with hierarchies is used as another 'power-over' function to justify the overall political dynamic.

 Obama: "Al Qaida did 9/11. It's why we're in Afghanistan'  [ 06/04/09 ] " ... The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates America's goals, and our need to work together. Over seven years ago, the United States pursued al Qaeda and the Taliban with broad international support. We did not go by choice, we went because of necessity. I am aware that some question or justify the events of 9/11. But let us be clear: al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. And yet Al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale. They have affiliates in many countries and are trying to expand their reach. These are not opinions to be debated; these are facts to be dealt with..." Note: No, they are not. These are LIES not "facts' ... the media-created 'allure' of this man continues ... 

 Obama halts road-building in national forests for one year  [ 05/29/09 ] "No new roads or logging will be allowed in 45 million acres of national forest land for the next year, the Obama administration announced Thursday. The one-year moratorium reinstates a Clinton-era ban on new road construction and development in remote national forests. It's designed to provide "clarity and consistency" on a number of disparate court rulings while the administration develops long-term management plans, said Chris Mather, a spokeswoman for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack."

 Obama to tighten internet control  [ 05/27/09 ] A video [4:07] from Russia Today television, 27 May 2009.

Obama signing statement weakens “whistle-blower” protections  [ 05/20/09 ] "When he signed into law a $410 billion omnibus spending bill on March 10, President Barack Obama included a "signing statement" weakening a rider in the bill that would have given protection to government officials who turn over information to Congress. As a candidate for the presidency, Obama campaigned in favor of broad protection for federal whistle-blowers and against the sort of presidential signing statements that, under the Bush administration, had eviscerated the intent of congressional legislation."

Obama Announces First Nationwide Regulation of Greenhouse Gases  [ 05/20/09 ] "President Obama today proposed tough standards for tailpipe emissions from new automobiles, establishing the first nationwide regulation for greenhouse gases ..." Note: Now that they are hundreds of billions in the hole, and no sign of actual improvement in these existing auto companies, Obama imposes new clean air standards for new cars. For the same money already poured into the big three automakers to little gain, they could have financed the construction of brand new automobile plants, with American workers, using up to date methods, to produce highly efficient cars at a lower price.

Obama Turns Back on Social Security and New Deal  [ 05/17/09 ] "Soon after getting into the White House, Barack Obama said bemusedly that some of his opponents were still fighting the New Deal. But now it looks like Obama himself may chip away at one of the cornerstones of the New Deal: and that is Social Security. After announcing that the recession has shrunk the payroll taxes that fund Social Security, Obama’s pathetic Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner signaled that cuts in the program may be in the offing. “The President explicitly rejects the notion that Social Security is untouchable politically,” Geithner said. Obama himself uses the derisive term “entitlement” for this benefit, as if the elderly and the disabled are acting like entitled little brats to expect to have any government help. Obama campaigned on preserving Social Security and accused McCain of wanting to cut it. Now, by preparing an assault on Social Security, he is engaging in a huge betrayal...."

Obama's top 10 stocks  [ 05/16/09 ] "Obama holds the bulk of his investing assets in U.S. Treasury bonds, with a range of between $1 million and more than $5 million, according to a disclosure of personal financial interests released Friday. The vast majority of his mutual fund holdings are in the Vanguard FTSE Social Index fund (VFTSX), with a range of between $115,000 and $250,000 ... According to the Vanguard site, the fund consists of mostly U.S. large and mid-sized companies that meet certain social and environmental criteria. The index tracks the performance of the FTSE4Good US Select. The fund's Top 10 holdings, according to the Vanguard site are: JP Morgan Chase (bailout recipient) , Apple, Google, Intel, Qualcomm, McDonald's, Bank of America (bailout recipient), Amgen, CVS Caremark, Gilead (maker of Tamiflu)." 

Obama Picks Top Polluter Lawyer To Enforce Environmental Laws  [ 05/16/09 ]  "Barack Obama has nominated a lawyer for the nation’s largest toxic polluters to run the enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws. On Tuesday, Obama “announced his intent to nominate” Ignacia S. Moreno to be Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division in the Department of Justice. Moreno, general counsel for that department during the Clinton administration, is now the corporate environmental counsel for General Electric, “America’s #1 Superfund Polluter“ .... This February, General Electric lost an eight-year battle to “prove that parts of the Superfund law are unconstitutional.” One of the 600-person DOJ environmental division’s “primary responsibilities is to enforce federal civil and criminal environmental laws such as” the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Superfund...."

Obama not for single payer health insurance: New Mexico town hall transcript  [ 05/15/09 ]  "Obama is pushing Congress to pass a massive health care reform plan. At a New Mexico rally on Wednesday--where most of his planned remarks were on credit card rules overhauls Congress is poised to approve--a man asked why single payer health care coverage is not part of the Obama conversation."

Obama threatens to limit U.S. intel with Brits  [ 05/12/09 ] "The Obama administration says it may curtail Anglo-American intelligence sharing if the British High Court discloses new details of the treatment of a former Guantanamo detainee. A court filing from the British Foreign Office released recently includes a letter from the U.S. government, identified as the "Obama administration's communication." Other information identifying the U.S. agency and author of the letter appears to have been redacted...."  Related: Libya/US: Investigate Death of Former CIA Prisoner | The Death of Rendition Victim Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi  "From Libya comes news of the death of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a former “ghost prisoner” of the United States, whose false confession about a connection between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein — extracted under torture in Egypt — was used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Congress Resists Guantánamo Releases

Obama Administration Takes Stronger Line With Israel  [ 05/06/09 ] " ... the Obama administration sought to make it clear Tuesday, with respectful but strong statements, that revealed little patience for Israeli recalcitrance on these core issues. According to a press release, Vice President Biden, speaking to the leading Israel lobby the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Tuesday, expressed the following hope for a viable plan, but warned against Israel's current and past attitudes towards the "settlements" ... The new approach is regarded as a significant change from the Bush years, where critics insist that administration was far to supine in its policies towards Israel."

Barack Obama: King Of Corporate Welfare (Fascism)  [ 04/26/09 ] "No matter what else he achieves or where he falls short, Barack Obama can lay claim to the title of King of Corporate Subsidies. Using any of a variety of measures, the Obama administration has broken all records in the distribution of taxpayer dollars to American businesses, primarily banks, automobile manufacturers and insurance companies. The tidal wave of dollar bills has stunned folks on all sides of the political spectrum ....."  Related: 'America lives in a fascist state' - Gerald Celente - [04/25/09 ] [11:17] 

Obama Tells Lawmakers in Private Meeting He Won't Support Torture Probe  [ 04/25/09 ] "President Barack Obama has backtracked on statements he made earlier this week in which he indicated he was open to a 9/11-type commission to investigate the Bush administration’s use of torture, telling lawmakers at a meeting at the White House Thursday he now doesn’t support the idea. Underscoring Obama’s new stance on the issue, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters: "the president determined the concept didn't seem altogether workable in this case."

EPA: carbon dioxide and five other gases deemed to threaten public welfare [ 04/20/09 ] " ... The official finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that carbon dioxide and five other gases threaten public welfare sets the stage for regulation of emissions from coal-fired power plants, and for forcing US car manufacturers to make cleaner and more fuel efficient vehicles. Environmentalists celebrated the ruling as the most definitive break to date with eight years of "climate denial" under George Bush. The EPA said the science about the dangers posed by greenhouse gases was compelling and overwhelming, and that the increase of such gases was the unambiguous result of human emissions."  Note: Nope. All lies. 

Obama Exceeds Bush in Lawlessness [ 04/19/09 ] " ... The evidence is now undeniable. President Barack Obama is flouting his unflagging constitutional obligation enshrined in Article II, Section 3 to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” He is also reneging on his signature campaign promise to restore the rule of law, transparency, and accountability to the White House. He is displaying the psychology of an arrogant empire as opposed to a modest republic in continuing and escalating the Bush-Cheney duumvirate’s global and perpetual war against international terrorism heedless of foreign sovereignties or the lives of civilians ..."

Judge Skeptical Of State Secrets Privilege For NSA/Charity Case [ 04/15/09 ] "The Obama administration suffered a bit of a legal setback this afternoon: a federal judge in California rejected the administration's assertion of the state secrets privilege in the civil suit brought by an Islamic charity that was allegedly subjected to illegal NSA surveillance."

Obama attacked from all sides over CIA memos [ 04/15/09 ] "Former Bush aides condemn release of sensitive documents / Human rights groups criticise immunity given to interrogators. If Obama does not prosecute the war criminals, or send them to be tried at the Hague, then he must be considered an accessory after the fact."

The Obama Deception - The Complete Video [120:00]  "The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order's plans. and only by exposing the con can we help to save freedom in America. The Obama Deception is not about Left or Right: it's about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda, and how his initial appointments and actions prove he serves the corporate oligarchs, not the American people. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you." 

Emerging progressive consensus on Obama's executive power and secrecy abuses [ 04/15/09 ] "In the last week alone, the Obama DOJ (a) attempted to shield Bush's illegal spying programs from judicial review by (yet again) invoking the very "state secrets" argument that Democrats spent years condemning and by inventing a brand new "sovereign immunity" claim that not even the Bush administration espoused, and (b) argued that individuals abducted outside of Afghanistan by the U.S. and then "rendered" to and imprisoned in Bagram have no rights of any kind -- not even to have a hearing to contest the accusations against them -- even if they are not Afghans and were captured far away from any "battlefield."

Obama Administration Endorses Continued Spying on Americans [ 04/14/09 ] "The Obama administration's drive to preserve the NSA's ability to illegally spy on Americans is intimately connected to the corporatist bottom line. After all, Democrat or Republican, the business of government is business. Arguments in San Francisco federal district court by U.S. Attorneys have been described by constitutional law experts as being "worse than Bush." In their motion to dismiss Jewell, the Obama administration cited the same perverse logic of the previous regime: that the state secrets privilege requires the court to dismiss the issue "out of hand." Douglas Letter, U.S. Terrorism Litigation Counsel for Obama's Department of Justice, argued that simply allowing the case to proceed "would cause exceptionally grave harm to national security." Yet more pernicious--and unprecedented--arguments followed. "The DoJ," according to EFF, now claim "that the U.S. Government is completely immune from litigation for illegal spying--that the Government can never be sued for surveillance that violates federal privacy statutes." Arguing that the state possesses "sovereign immunity," the "change" administration now claims that under provisions of the disgraceful USA PATRIOT Act--a draconian law rammed through Congress in the wake of the 9/11 attacks--the state is "immune from suit under the two remaining key federal surveillance laws: the Wiretap Act and the Stored Communications Act." In practice, this means that under a new, ludicrous interpretation of the Orwellian PATRIOT Act, the government can never be held accountable for illegal surveillance under any federal statute ..."

Former Obama Advisor and CFR VP says 100,000+ Troops, 10+ more years needed in Afghanistan [ 04/13/09 ] " ... Korb discussed Obama’s plans for Afghansistan at length. He said, “The indications are that, you know, he’s gonna be going big in Afghanistan.” He acknowledged that this is a betrayal of what his supporters — many of whom are anti-war — were led to believe about Obama’s agenda during his campaign. “A lot of people say, ‘Well, no. We voted for him because we didn’t want [to go] to any wars!’” Korb said with an amused smirk. In a mocking tone, he continued: “And… you know on the ‘BLOGOSPHERE’ you should see the stuff. I mean, these people are mobilizing to stop going to Afghanistan.” But Korb did not seem to think that this pervasive, adamant grassroots opposition to “going big” in Afghanistan should give Obama a moment’s pause, despite the fact that, according to Korb, “seeing it through” will require America to pay a high price, in both money and lives ..."  Related: Policing Afghanistan: Obama's New Strategy 

Right’s rage at overbearing Obama [ 04/13/09 ] "The torrent of ideas flowing out of the White House is raising hackles across the US .."

Obama and habeas corpus -- then and now [ 04/12/09 ] " ... The Obama DOJ argued that individuals can be imprisoned indefinitely with no rights of any kind ... The Obama DOJ is now squarely to the Right of an extremely conservative, pro-executive-power, Bush 43-appointed judge on issues of executive power and due-process-less detentions. Leave aside for the moment the issue of whether you believe that the U.S. Government should have the right to abduct people anywhere in the world, ship them to faraway prisons and hold them there indefinitely without charges or any rights at all. The Bush DOJ -- and now the Obama DOJ -- maintain the President does and should have that right, and that's an issue that has been extensively debated. It was, after all, one of the centerpieces of the Bush regime of radicalism, lawlessness and extremism. Consider, instead, what Barack Obama -- before he became President -- repeatedly claimed to believe about these issues ..."

OPED: Obama appoints another pro-Israel extremist for Near Eastern Affairs [ 04/11/09 ] "Feltman assisted Martin Indyk in the sham peace negotiations under Clinton in 2000. He was subsequently named U.S. Consul-General in Jerusalem in 2001."

Obama 'absolutely' behind effort to throw out warrantless wiretapping suit [ 04/11/09 ] "President Barack Obama endorsed a Justice Department move to dismiss a case in which the National Security Agency is being sued over its warrantless wiretapping program, because he believes the case presents a risk to national security, the White House told Raw Story Thursday."

The Two Faces of Barack Obama [ 04/07/09 ] "Like Americans, the Europeans want to believe – but they see the two faces of Barack Obama too clearly, and the contrast is too apparent to be denied. The gullible Americans, who take things at face value, still believe their new president represents a real change, a challenge to the status quo, while the more sophisticated Europeans are quick to pick up on Obama’s inconsistencies – made all the more glaring by his habit of pairing two mutually contradictory stances on the same issue."

With 2010 Census Looming, Obama Chooses Survey Expert to Run Bureau [ 04/04/09 ] "President Obama has picked Robert M. Groves, a prominent survey researcher, to lead the Census Bureau, less than a year before the 2010 census begins."

Neal Wolin, Treasury Nominee, Helped Draft Legislation Deregulating Banks [ 04/01/09 ] "Tim Geithner's new nominee for number two at the Treasury Department, Neal Wolin, played a key role in drafting legislation in the late 1990s deregulating the banking system, a former Treasury Department official confirms to us." 

President Obama's security bubble [ 04/01/09 ] "US President Barack Obama has arrived in London for the G20 summit with a large contingent of the White House staff with him. Hundreds of security guards, doctors, chefs and others are accompanying President Obama on his visit, and the entourage includes a number of presidential vehicles - including his new armour-plated limousine, The Beast, and aeroplane, Air Force One. The 4,000 sq ft Boeing 747 is fully equipped for the president to work while he is in the air. The exercise-loving president will even be able to use the onboard gym to keep fit inflight. The plane is fitted with some robust security equipment including shields to protect its instruments from an electromagnetic pulse. The communications equipment is even capable of withstanding radiation from a nuclear attack. Blood supply After landing at Stansted Airport in Essex, Mr Obama was ferried into the heart of London on Marine One, his personal VH-3D helicopter. Marine One is capable of firing flares to divert heat-seeking missiles - and always flies as part of a convoy of identical decoy aircraft. His helicopter peels away at the last minute only when the convoy has reached its destination. On the ground, the president rides around in The Beast, a brand new presidential limo finished earlier this year at a cost of $300,000 (£200,000) .... As well as medical personnel, Mr Obama's entourage consists of over 200 security officials, dozens of political aides and a team of personal chefs ..." 

Obama expands public lands  [ 03/31/09 ] "President Obama this afternoon signed into law that protects more than 2 million new acres in nine states as designated wilderness areas ... " (Places where they don't want the public wandering around) 

Obama’s involvement in Chicago Climate Exchange [ 03/29/09 ] "... In short, “While on the board of a Chicago-based charity, Barack Obama helped fund a carbon trading exchange that will likely play a critical role in the cap-and-trade carbon reduction program he is now trying to push through Congress as president.” The charity was the Joyce Foundation on whose board of directors Obama served and which gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were “instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself “North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.”  And that’s only the beginning of this tawdry tale .... The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong .... For years now Strong and Gore have been cashing in on that lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming. Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as “the world’s first and North America’s only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil.” Gore, self-proclaimed Patron Saint of the Environment, buys his carbon off-sets from himself--the Generation Investment Management LLP, “an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C., of which he is both chairman and founding partner. The Generation Investment Management business has considerable influence over the major carbon credit trading firms that currently exist, including the Chicago Climate Exchange. Strong, the silent partner, is a man whose name often draws a blank on the Washington cocktail circuit. Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of an Oil-for-Food beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the United States. That’s because he spends most of his time in China where he he has been working to make the communist country the world’s next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is the big cheese in the underworld of climate change and is one of the main architects of the failing Kyoto Protocol. Full credit for the expose on the business partnership of Strong and Gore in the cap-and-trade reduction scheme should go to the investigative acumen of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) [...]" Related: Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Scheme He Is Now Pushing Through Congress  Related: White House Announces International Meetings to Address Energy and Climate Issues The meetings will seek to resolve longstanding issues that have blocked the development of an international climate treaty. 

US Liberals Begin To Confront Obama Betrayal ["America’s liberals lay into Obama"] [ 03/24/09 ] "The liberal backlash against President Barack Obama has begun with many prominent left-leaning economists in the US attacking the administration’s plans to bail out the banks. Paul Krugman describes the toxic asset purchase plan as “cash for trash”. Jeffrey Sachs calls it “a thinly veiled attempt to transfer hundreds of billions of US taxpayer funds to the commercial banks”. Robert Reich depicts Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary, as a prisoner of Wall Street while Joe Stiglitz says the plan “amounts to robbery of the American people”. 

Senator Sanders Blocking Key Obama Nomination  [ 03/24/09 ] "While Mr. Gensler is clearly an intelligent and knowledgeable person, I cannot support his nomination. Mr. Gensler worked with Sen. Phil Gramm and Alan Greenspan to exempt credit default swaps from regulation, which led to the collapse of A.I.G. and has resulted in the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. history. He supported Gramm-Leach-Bliley, which allowed banks like Citigroup to become “too big to fail.” He worked to deregulate electronic energy trading, which led to the downfall of Enron and the spike in energy prices. At this moment in our history, we need an independent leader who will help create a new culture in the financial marketplace and move us away from the greed, recklessness and illegal behavior which has caused so much harm to our economy."

Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program arming pilots [ 03/22/09 ] "After September 11, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless. That's about to end." 

Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered [ 03/21/09 ]  [4:17]  "... 2001 Chicago Public Radio Interview Obama radically reinterprets the constitution to redistribute wealth ... through means other than courts ...."

Obama Rebuffs Israeli Hawk [ 03/18/09 ] "There are very worrying signs about Israel and Iran, amid new threats from Israeli officials that they won't long tolerate Iran's nuclear program before they strike militarily. But, at the same time, there are reports that President Obama's national security team isn't buying the Israeli line that time is running out. For instance, a top Israeli military official, in Washington, was not exactly given the red carpet treatment by Obama's top officials -- yet even so, he met Jim Jones, Obama's national security adviser, Hillary Clinton, and Dennis Ross. The Israeli armed forces chief of staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, met yesterday with top US officials in Washington, including General James Jones, the national security adviser, and Dennis Ross, the State Department's special adviser on "the Gulf and Southwest Asia," and he warned that Israel is preparing for a military strike on Iran."

Obama Administration Declares Proposed IP Treaty a 'National Security' Secret  [ 03/14/09 ] "President Barack Obama came into office in January promising a new era of openness. But now, like Bush before him, Obama is playing the national security card to hide details of the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated across the globe ... The national security claim is stunning, given that the treaty negotiations have included the 27 member states of the European Union, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Switzerland and New Zealand, all of whom presumably have access to the "classified" information ... The White House this week declared the text of the proposed treaty a "properly classified" national security secret, in rejecting a Freedom of Information Act request by Knowledge Ecology International. In early January, the Bush administration made the same claim in rejecting (.pdf) a similar FOIA request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation ... If ratified, leaked documents posted on WikiLeaks and other comments suggest the proposed trade accord would criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and allow internet service providers to monitor their customers' communications ..."  Related:  Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Fact or Fiction? 

FBI Raids Obama Technology Chief's Office  [ 03/12/09 ] "FBI agents on Thursday arrested two men and searched the city's technology office, until recently led by President Barack Obama's new computer chief. The White House said it was notified in advance of the search of the former District of Columbia office of Vivek Kundra, whom Obama chose as his chief information officer, an administration-wide post coordinating federal computer systems ..."

OPED: Monsanto's Michael Taylor to control "Food Safety" from the White House [03/11/09 ] "Michael Taylor, perhaps stowed away in Hillary Clinton's trunk as a nostalgic reminder of the good ole days when Bill put him in charge of the FDA and he approved rBGH, has reentered government along with her. He slipped onto Obama's transition team somehow (just how?) and is now hoping to slip into an office ... in the White House ..."  Related: Monsanto's dream bill, HR 875 "HR 875, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto. The bill is monstrous on level after level - the power it would give to Monsanto, the criminalization of seed banking, the prison terms and confiscatory fines for farmers, the 24 hours GPS tracking of their animals, the easements on their property to allow for warrantless government entry, the stripping away of their property rights, the imposition by the filthy, greedy industrial side of anti-farming international "industrial" standards to independent farms - the only part of our food system that still works, the planned elimination of farmers through all these means. The corporations want the land, they want more intensive industrialization, they want the end of normal animals so they can substitute patented genetically engineered ones they own, they want the end of normal seeds and thus of seed banking by farmers or individuals. They want control over all seeds, animals, water, and land ..."

Obama: Don't Rely on Bush's Signing Statements [03/09/09 ] "President Barack Obama has ordered a review of his predecessor's signing statements which often told officials how to implement laws, the Associated Press reports. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that Obama has sent memos to federal agencies directing them to review former President George W. Bush's signing statements. When signing legislation, Bush often would use such statements to direct officials to ignore parts of the law he thought were incorrect or restricted the administration's constitutional powers. "In exercising my responsibility to determine whether a provision of an enrolled bill is unconstitutional, I will act with caution and restraint, based only on interpretations of the Constitution that are well-founded," Mr. Obama wrote in a memorandum to the heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch ..."

Obama Science Memo Goes Beyond Stem Cells [03/09/09 ] "... We will develop strict guidelines, which we will rigorously enforce, because we cannot ever tolerate misuse or abuse," Obama said. "And we will ensure that our government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human reproduction. It is dangerous, profoundly wrong, and has no place in our society, or any society ..."  Note: Yes. Too many idiots around. Who needs copies?

The Israeli Who Runs the Obama White House by Christopher Bollyn [03/09/09 ] "... One of the key players in the Obama administration’s $900 billion economic stimulus package is Obama’s new budget director Peter R. Orszag. Orszag, 40, is the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the arm of the White House responsible for crafting the federal budget and overseeing the effectiveness of federal programs. He worked closely with Rahm Emanuel in the Clinton administration - when the disastrous NAFTA was passed - and was one of the first Obama appointees to be approved ..." 

Obama speaks of 'reaching out' to Taliban   [03/08/09 ] "The US president admits that the 'anti-terror' operations in Afghanistan will not lead to victory, urging dialogue with insurgents as a cure."  Related: Taliban Pak havens Afghanistan's main obstacle 

Cyber-Security Czar Quits Amid Fears of NSA Takeover  [03/06/09 ] "Rod Beckström, the Department of Homeland Security's controversial cyber-security chief, has suddenly resigned amid allegations of power grabs and bureaucratic infighting."

Obama Pick to Head DOJ Criminal Division Represented High Profile Criminals  [03/06/09 ] "... President Obama’s pick to head the Justice Department’s criminal division has represented several high-profile subjects of recent government investigations—and been paid handsomely for it. According to disclosure forms obtained by POLITICO, Lanny Breuer earned $2.4 million in the last two years as a defense lawyer representing clients including mortgage lender Freddie Mac, which was taken over by the government last year ; big pharmaceutical firms under Congressional investigation; Los Alamos National Laboratory in an investigation over alleged sharing of nuclear secrets with China; and a lobbying firm linked to Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) that attracted federal scrutiny after Lewis earmarked millions for its clients."

Feingold: Obama's War Plans Too Costly, Too Vague, And Possibly Too Dangerous  [03/04/09 ] "... Addressing Iraq first, Feingold said the decision to leave a residual force of 50,000 troops in that country past 2010 went "way beyond" what was needed and could have serious fiscal and national security implications ... "In some ways, I'm even more concerned about this proposal for Afghanistan than I am about the president's plans for Iraq," he said, "because I don't think the policy review and plan is in place to explain why these troops are going there. ... It doesn't really build an understanding of the relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is the central problem. So to just put more troops into Afghanistan without a clear purpose, to me, is putting the cart before the horse and it is not the way to go." In the worst of scenarios, Feingold warned, an influx of troops into Afghanistan would lead to the Taliban fleeing into neighboring Pakistan. "Think of the problems with Pakistan involving the Taliban," he said. Would the United States be obligated to move ground forces into Pakistan? And where were the "non-military aspects of trying to bring stability" to both those countries? .... There are going to be times with any administration where the push for executive power with the perception that it is necessary with national security will conflict with some of the views that I think are equally supportive of national security but avoid obsessive government secrecy," said Feingold. "I think all of these things raise issues. And we have to take them one at a time and consider them. But what I've found is that the administration is willing to engage in a real conversation about this without making what I consider to be dangerous accretions about the powers of the Constitution as they relate to the president." 

Zeke Emanuel is a health care advisor to Obama. Wants to phase out Medicare and Medicaid   [03/04/09 ] "Ezekiel J. Emanuel, big brother to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, is quickly emerging as a key player in Obama’s health-care overhaul, the biggest push to expand coverage in two decades.   

Republican Leader Calls For Investigation Of Obama Intel Chairman   [03/04/09 ] "Nine members of the House of Representatives, including Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), are asking for an investigation into the financial ties of Barack Obama's National Intelligence Council chairman Chas Freeman. In a letter to the Inspector General at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Reps. Eric Cantor, Shelley Berekley, Mark Krik, Sue Myrick, Patrick McHenry, Leonard Lance, Doug Lamborn, Bob Inglis, Mike Rogers and Boehner, expressed concern that Freeman's organization has "close ties to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," and made the case for an investigation." 

More Secret Bush Memos To Be Released  [03/04/09 ] "One day after releasing a set of Bush administration memorandums claiming sweeping presidential powers to bypass legal constraints when fighting terrorism, Justice Department officials said on Tuesday that they may soon disclose further secret opinions about interrogation, surveillance, and other national security policies ..." Related: Nine Previously Released Secret Bush Memos

Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos [03/03/09 ] "The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects. The Justice Department released nine legal opinions showing that, following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Bush administration determined that certain constitutional rights would not apply during the coming fight. Within two weeks, government lawyers were already discussing ways to wiretap U.S. conversations without warrants." Related:  John Yoo’s growing disgrace 

Israel lobby fails to block key Obama intelligence appointment  [03/02/09 ] "In Washington, the Israel lobby, a loose conglomeration of organisations and individuals who throw their weight behind what they perceive as Israel's strategic interests, has until recently enjoyed an unparalleled level of political influence. Nowadays, its power is clearly waning. The appointment of veteran diplomat and uber-realist Chas Freeman as chairman of the highly influential National Intelligence Council is seen by many as a major setback for the lobby."  Note: Chas, please stay out of small airplanes.

Court rejects Obama bid to stop wiretapping suit  [03/01/09 ] "All we wanted was our day in court and it looks like we're finally going to get our day in court," said Al-Haramain's lawyer, Steven Goldberg. "This case is all about challenging an assertion of power by the executive branch which is extraordinary."

Obama administration will rescind 'conscience rule'  [02/28/09 ] "Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration Friday will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows health-care workers to deny abortion counseling or other family-planning services if doing so would violate their moral beliefs, according to administration officials."   Related: Senate bans Fairness Doctrine revival 87-11

Fear of Obama drives gun stocks higher  [02/27/09 ] "Rising concern over increased regulation from the Obama White House has gun buffs stocking up on the latest tactical rifles and pistols. This helps the fortunes of gun makers Smith & Wesson (SWHC) and Ruger (RGR) as well as specialty retailer Cabela's (CAB), which specializes in firearms and hunting gear. Ruger reported Tuesday that gun sales increased 81% in the fourth quarter on new products and "robust firearms demand." Its order backlog now stands at $48 million. Smith & Wesson plans to double revenue within the next three years and reported increased sales from "speculation on the outcome of the presidential election." Cabela's reported that same-store sales rose 2.2% over the election season -- a time of great distress for other retailers."  Related: Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban

Obama's War Machine Needs $800 Billion For 2009 [02/27/09 ] "Barack Obama's election promise to bring "change" to Washington and reverse the juggernaut of the Bush war machine has proven to be nothing more than a cruel hoax, emphasized by his recent actions on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq and his latest demand for a total of around $800 billion in war funds ($200 Billion) and subsidiary costs ($600 Billion) just to cover the rest of 2009." 

Obama to end tax cuts for firms that outsource [02/26/09 ] "In a message that may not be music to Indian outsourcing firms, US President Barack Obama has served notice that he would end the tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs abroad."

Pentagon critic tapped to be weapons buyer [02/25/09 ] "President Barack Obama has nominated Harvard professor Ashton Carter, a leading authority on arms control and a longtime academic, to serve as the Pentagon’s chief weapons buyer, the White House announced Monday. ~~~~~ Unlike most of his predecessors, Carter has no professional ties to America’s arms makers or manufacturing industry, nor has he spent his career in procurement, according to the report. Instead, from his perch at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Carter has been criticizing the Pentagon for buying too much armament it does not need."  Related: Bill Targets How U.S. Buys Weapons "Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who heads the Senate Armed Services Committee, and senior Republican panel member John McCain of Arizona introduced legislation that would make it easier to kill weapons programs that spawn runaway development costs, while taking steps to improve competition in the heavily consolidated industry."

Obama expanding military (and CIA) operations in Pakistan: Report  [02/22/09 ] "Barack Obama's administration has broadened the number of radical groups targeted by the CIA inside Pakistan by attacking a militant network seeking to overthrow the Pakistani government, The New York Times reported Saturday. The newspaper said recent missile strikes on training camps run by Baitullah Mehsud represent a broadening of the US military campaign inside Pakistan, which has been carried out largely by (CIA directed) drone aircraft."  

Obama Backs Bush On Bagram Detainees  [02/21/09 ]  "The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights. In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The filing shocked human rights attorneys. "The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we'd hoped," said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Airfield. "We all expected better."

Israeli election muddies Obama's waters  [02/16/09 ]  "United States President Barack Obama's Middle East project took two impressive steps forward during the week, but eventually got pushed back by almost one ... Obama made his most pronounced overture so far to Iran in his press conference on Monday, and Tehran promptly grasped it within hours. But former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami's decision to jump into the fray in the forthcoming presidential election in June introduces complications in the highly accident-prone US-Iranian enterprise ..."

Congress takes first step to impose limits on Obama's executive power [02/14/09 ] "Earlier this week, I wrote about the State Secrets Protection Act of 2008, which was co-sponsored by numerous key Senators [including Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee's Chair (Pat Leahy) and ranking member (Arlen Specter)], and which was approved by the Judiciary Committee last year with all Democrats voting in favor. That bill, in essence, sought to ban the exact abuse of the State Secrets privilege which the Bush administration repeatedly invoked and which, now, the Obama administration has embraced: namely, as a weapon to conceal and immunize government lawbreaking (by compelling the dismissal of entire lawsuits in advance) rather than a limited, document-by-document evidentiary privilege ... Sen. Feingold explicitly criticized the Obama administration earlier this week for its endorsement of exactly these abusive theories. Several hours before the Senate bill was introduced, several key House Democrats introduced a similar bill in the House. The ACLU promptly endorsed the bill ..."

 Can Obama escape the dominating influence of AIPAC and the American Israeli lobby?  [02/13/09 ]  "Apparently not. Helen Thomas asked Obama a direct question at his first press conference. She asked him what nations in the Middle East have nuclear weapons right now. Obama hemmed and hawed and made a statement about not allowing a nuclear arms race in the middle east, but avoided the question. The reason is simple. Under US law it is illegal to give foreign aid to nations that have a nuclear capability operating outside international controls. Israel, which is known to have a nuclear weapons factory underneath the reactor at Dimona, has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and does not allow IAEA inspectors to visit their facilities. Hence, under the Symington Amendment, it is illegal for the US to send Israel foreign aid. So, by not answering the question, Obama has avoided being called a liar, and more to the point has proven that he intends to keep supplying Israel with OUR money and weapons, even though it is illegal for him to do so. And, Obama has announced today that he "believes" Tehran wants to develop a nuclear bomb, despite the 2007 NIE in which the various US intelligence agencies unanimously concluded that Iran was not developing nuclear weapons. So, the war is on, because Israel wants it."

Obama: Breaking the Law for Israel's Sake [02/12/09 ] "Since entering office, President Barack Obama has promised sweeping changes in three aspects of governance: transparency, law enforcement, and stewardship of American tax dollars. For a public weary of law enforcement forever prosecuting street but never elite crime, Obama's many statements about holding all individuals accountable under the law have been encouraging. He also called for government-agency compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in a White House mandate for transparency. Obama swore any bailouts of financial institutions and industries will hereafter avoid secretly funneling taxpayer funds into bloated Wall Street bonuses, executive junkets, and private jets. But does Obama intend to follow these rules himself? Probably not. Obama's entire facade momentarily crumbled under a single withering question – "Do you know of any country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons?" – launched by veteran reporter Helen Thomas during the president's first evening press conference on Feb. 9, 2008."

Raytheon lobbyist named Deputy Secretary of Defense   [02/12/09 ] "The U.S. Senate approved William Lynn, a former Raytheon Co lobbyist, to be deputy secretary of defense after he received a special White House waiver from strict new rules meant to close a "revolving door" between government and big business. Lynn, the Pentagon's chief financial officer from November 1997 to January 2001 under former President Bill Clinton, was confirmed by a vote of 93 to 4 on Wednesday. At Raytheon, the world's biggest missile-maker and the Pentagon's No. 6 supplier by sales, he was registered as the company's top lobbyist to the Defense Department from July 2002 until last year."

US energy chief floats idea of a carbon emissions tax  [02/12/09 ] "US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has floated the idea of a carbon emissions tax to fight global warming, in an interview with The New York Times Thursday." No basis for validity - any of it. This human-caused global warming crap is nothing but a scam by corrupted and bankrupt governments to take more money"

 Obama's First Press Conference: Repeating Old Lies, Dodging Old Truths [02/11/09 ]  "So how's that "change" thing working out? Are we getting better, or more of the same, and why? In his first press conference, Obama labeled the regime a destabilizing influence in the Middle East because it allegedly sought nuclear weapons, while ignoring the longstanding Israeli nuclear threat to all its neighbors."

 US will pretend Russian ‘sphere of influence’ doesn't exist   [02/07/09 ]  "The United States and Russia need to "press the reset button" to end a dangerous drift in relations between Moscow and NATO and find areas where they can work together, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday. But he said that the United States would not accept that the breakaway regions of Georgia were part of Russia's "sphere of influence." "The United States rejects the notion that NATO's gain is Russia's loss, or that Russia's strength is NATO's weakness," he told a security conference in Moscow."  Note: Yes, it's all in your head, Joe.  

 A&E Biography Barack Obama  [01/28/09 ]  [45:15]  | The Obama Deception - Trailer for a Film by Alex Jones [2:56] Due out March 15th

 Obama Staffing Justice Dept With Bush's Fiercest Legal Critics  [01/25/09 ] "Barack Obama is staffing his Justice Department with some of his predecessor's fiercest critics, and lawyers who have spent years defining the limits of executive power will now be helping to wield it. The change may be most dramatic at the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — which defended some of Bush’s most controversial policies — where a small cadre of lawyers who had an outsized influence on legal criticism of Bush are taking the top three jobs. Those three — Dawn Johnsen, Martin Lederman, and David Barron — and others made the case that Bush’s interrogation policy was justified by flawed legal reasoning. Their arguments precipitated one of Obama’s most dramatic early acts: flatly repudiating all government legal advice on interrogation issued between September 11, 2001, and January 20, 2009 ..."

 The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises  [01/24/09 ] "PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is completed, we rate them Promise Kept, Compromise or Promise Broken."

 National Emergency" Status Continued:  [01/23/09 ]   Middle East Peace Process; Continuation of National Emergency with Respect to Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt  and  Cuba; Continuation of the National Emergency Relating to the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels 

 The question that may never go away: Who really is Barack Obama?  [01/17/09 ] " ... In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Fathers", Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his employer as "a consulting house to multinational corporations" in New York City, and his functions as a "research assistant" and "financial writer". The odd part of Obama's story is that he doesn't mention the name of his employer. However, a New York Times story of 2007 identifies the company as Business International Corporation.  Equally odd is that the Times did not remind its readers that the newspaper itself had disclosed in 1977 that Business International had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960. The British journal, Lobster Magazine – which, despite its incongruous name, is a venerable international publication on intelligence matters – has reported that Business International was active in the 1980s promoting the candidacy of Washington-favored candidates in Australia and Fiji. In 1987, the CIA overthrew the Fiji government after but one month in office because of its policy of maintaining the island as a nuclear-free zone, meaning that American nuclear-powered or nuclear-weapons- carrying ships could not make port calls.  After the Fiji coup, the candidate supported by Business International, who was much more amenable to Washington's nuclear desires, was reinstated to power – R.S.K. Mara was Prime Minister or President of Fiji from 1970 to 2000, except for the one-month break in 1987. In his book, not only doesn't Obama mention his employer's name; he fails to say when he worked there, or why he left the job. There may well be no significance to these omissions, but inasmuch as Business International has a long association with the world of intelligence, covert actions, and attempts to penetrate the radical left – including Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)  – it's valid to wonder if the inscrutable Mr. Obama is concealing something about his own association with this world ..."

 Obama Asks Retired Air Force General to Run NASA  [01/14/09 ] "Barack Obama has asked retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Gration, one of his top foreign policy and military advisers during his campaign, to take the helm of NASA, according to a source informed of the selection."

 CDC director Gerberding resigns at Obama’s request  [01/11/09 ] "CDC Director Julie Gerberding’s controversial tenure will end Jan. 20 — after Barack Obama is sworn in as president, employees of the Atlanta-based agency were informed in an email sent late Friday evening ... Gerberding returned from Africa on Friday night and was unavailable for comment, according to a brief statement released by the agency. “As part of the transition process, the Administration requested resignation letters from a number of senior-level officials, including Dr. Julie Gerberding. This week, the Administration accepted Dr. Gerberding’s resignation, effective January 20. As Dr. Gerberding noted in a November e-mail to CDC leadership, she has always expected that she would be leaving after the administration changes,” the written statement said. Gerberding was the first woman to lead the agency, which has about 9,000 government employees and 5,000 contract workers ... Gerberding’s six years leading one of the nation’s most trusted institutions were marked by numerous controversies, from allegations that she allowed politics to interfere with science to concerns that her strategic decisions incapacitated the agency’s ability to respond in a public health crisis ... Last year, congressional investigators concluded the CDC failed “in almost every respect” to protect Hurricane Katrina’s victims from dangerous formaldehyde fumes in government-provided trailers. And Gerberding was accused of playing politics by refusing to reappoint the director of the agency’s worker safety division — a man widely respected by business leaders, labor unions and lawmakers. Gerberding drew fire from Democratic lawmakers in 2007 when she delivered testimony to Congress about the health effects of climate change that had been censored by the White House. In 2003 Gerberding launched a massive reorganization of the CDC that many employees say plunged the nation’s 9-1-1 system for public health into turmoil and caused an exodus of key scientific staff. In December 2005 five former CDC directors sent Gerberding a highly unusual joint letter warning that the agency was in trouble in the wake of her reorganization. They were alarmed by the departures of critical staff. Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, who preceded Gerberding as CDC director and was one of the authors of the letter, served on the Obama transition team for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HHS is the parent agency of the CDC."

 Obama picks defense lobbyist as deputy defense secretary  [01/10/09 ]  "President-elect Barack Obama, who campaigned on lessening the influence of lobbyists in government, has chosen a defense expert who is currently a vice president and lobbyist for one of the country’s biggest defense contractors to be his deputy secretary of defense. Obama’s transition office announced that William Lynn, an undersecretary of defense in President Bill Clinton’s second term, is nominated to Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ deputy. Lynn is currently a senior vice president at Raytheon, which has billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts and is the maker of the Army’s Patriot Missile system and the Tomahawk missile used by the Navy. The company is also developing a global positioning satellite communication system with the Air Force. As deputy secretary, Lynn would be involved in the process of budgeting and acquisitions, in addition to running the day-to-day operations of the Defense Department."  Note: Where is this not a conflict of interest?

 Obama picks Panetta for CIA director  [01/05/09 ]  "Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA. Panetta was a surprise pick for the post, with no experience in the intelligence world. An Obama transition official and another Democrat disclosed his nomination on a condition of anonymity since it was not yet public. Panetta was director of the Office of Management and Budget and a longtime congressman from California. He served on the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that released a report at the end of 2006 with dozens of recommendations for the reversing course in the Iraq war. Panetta currently directs with his wife Sylvia the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California State University, Monterey Bay a university he helped establish on the site of the former U.S. Army base, Fort Ord." 

 Obama's Office of Legal Counsel Appointments  [01/05/09 ]  "The Office of Legal Counsel, inside the Justice Department, is probably the most consequential federal government office that remains relatively obscure. The legal opinions which it issues become, more or less automatically, the official legal position of the Executive Branch. It was from that office that John Yoo, Jay Bybee and others did so much damage, issuing now-infamous memoranda that established the regime of lawlessness that has dominated our political institutions over the last eight years. Other than Attorney General-designate Eric Holder and Obama himself, there is probably no official who will have a more significant role in determining the extent to which the Obama administration really does reverse the lawlessness and legal radicalism of the Bush years .... Elena Kagan, Harvard law school's dean, will be the new solicitor general, President-elect Barack Obama's transition office announced. She will be Obama's voice at the US Supreme Court, and she has been considered a potential Democratic appointee to the Court itself. Obama also announced David Ogden as Deputy Attorney General; Tom Perrelli as Associate Attorney General; and Dawn Johnsen as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. The picks add to the growing lists of former Clinton administration officials, and of appointees with connections to Harvard ..."

 Obama to face a legal battle against Bush’s issue of Executive Powers  [01/03/09 ]  "A legal battle of President elect Barack Obama versus the claim of Bush Administration, to come up in the Supreme Court, has become a legal and technical issue whether the president has powers to order the military to seize legal residents of the United States and hold them indefinitely without charging them with a crime ..."

 After Backing Massive Wall Street Bailout, McConnell Plans To Block Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan  [01/01/09 ]  Despite the urgency after eight years of the Bush administration doing nothing, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is now saying that he and his fellow conservatives are in no rush to provide this important economic relief and plan to put the brakes to attempts to quickly pass a package ..."

 Teams from Obama and Bush Regimes Will Run Joint Terrorism Drill in January  [12/30/08 ]  "White House officials have not said what specific scenarios will be played out in next month’s exercises. One overriding concern since 2001 has been the possibility that Washington comes under attack. In that case, plans would need to be in place for the replacement of key government officials."   Replace them with 'pod people' and get it over with.

 Obama Climate Czar Intentionally Erased Digital Trail: Climate Scam Decisions To Be Untraceable?  [12/24/08 ]  "Don't bother looking for any electronic records of Carol Browner's first stint as a federal government executive. The soon-to-be Obama administration climate czar intentionally didn't keep many. In sworn testimony obtained by The Washington Times, Ms. Browner disclosed that she refused to use e-mail when she served as President Clinton's Environmental Protection Agency chief in the 1990s for fear of leaving a digital trail. She also ordered her government computer hard drive wiped clean of records just before leaving office .... Ms. Browner's testimony provided a rare insight into her distaste for keeping historical government records in electronic form. It's an aversion that concerns some government watchdogs as she prepares to take the high-profile job of coordinating President-elect Barack Obama's efforts against global warming. "Obviously, it's troubling that public officials would avoid doing things because they're afraid the public might see it later," said Mike Surrusco, senior researcher at Common Cause, a nonpartisan group that monitors government ethics and openness. Charles Davis, executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition at the University of Missouri, said avoiding computers and e-mail "seems a little drastic and over the top." 

 Global warming fear-monger selected as Puppet Obama’s top science adviser [12/21/08 ] "A celebrated Harvard professor has been selected to whisper into President-elect Obama’s ear about global warming…uh, I mean global climate change, or whatever they call it these days. Professor John P. Holdren is expected to serve as Obama’s top science adviser, no doubt signaling that the Obama administration will attempt to pass a tax on carbon rather than fight real environmental issues."  Related:  Obama Is Blinding Us With Science  Video [5:19]

 Obama’s Narrator   [12/20/08 ] " ... When Barack Obama decided in January that he would run for president in 2008 and quietly began calling up his staff members and close supporters to tell them so, the choice had many effects, but one of the most immediate and parochial was that it sent Obama’s chief political and media adviser, a Chicago consultant named David Axelrod, into his editing studio. For four years Axelrod has had camera crews tracking virtually everything Obama has done in public — chatting up World War II vets in southern Illinois, visiting his father’s ancestral village in western Kenya — and there were days when the camera crews have outnumbered the civilians ..."   Extensive Profile Also, see his connections in the NNDB. Click on "Create a map starting with David Axelrod" 

 Obama Positioned to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions  [12/20/08 ] " ... A team of four dozen advisers, working for months in virtual solitude, set out to identify regulatory and policy changes Obama could implement soon after his inauguration. The team is now consulting with liberal advocacy groups, Capitol Hill staffers and potential agency chiefs to prioritize those they regard as the most onerous or ideologically offensive, said a top transition official who was not permitted to speak on the record about the inner workings of the transition. In some instances, Obama would be quickly delivering on promises he made during his two-year campaign, while in others he would be embracing Clinton-era policies upended by President Bush during his eight years in office. "The kind of regulations they are looking at" are those imposed by Bush for "overtly political" reasons, in pursuit of what Democrats say was a partisan Republican agenda, said Dan Mendelson, a former associate administrator for health in the Clinton administration's Office of Management and Budget. The list of executive orders targeted by Obama's team could well get longer in the coming days, as Bush's appointees rush to enact a number of last-minute policies in an effort to extend his legacy ..."

 Senate scandal snares Obama’s chief aide  [12/14/08 ] "The bullish, foul-mouthed but effective Chicago arm-twister Rahm Emanuel has come under pressure to resign as Barack Obama’s chief of staff after it was revealed that he had been captured on court-approved wire-taps discussing the names of candidates for Obama’s Senate seat. Emanuel’s presence at the heart of the scandal threatens to roil the president-elect’s administration as a Chicago prosecutor builds his corruption case against Rod Blagojevich, the Illinois governor."

 Obama-Blagojevich Connections  [12/14/08 ] "Chicago businessman Antoin "Tony" Rezko, convicted in June of a $7 million kickback operation, gave his support and lots of money to both Obama and Blagojevich. Obama is close to Illinois Senate President Emil Jones, a big Blagojevich legislative buddy. Michael Strautmanis, now an Obama aide, once worked for Blagojevich. Obama friend and transition team member Valerie Jarrett, soon to become a senior adviser, is called in court documents "Candidate 1" -- the person he wanted to have the Senate seat before giving her the White House post ..."

 Obama Pushing For Secret Legal Memos  [12/12/08 ] "Legal Times reports that President-elect Barack Obama has been having trouble with one small transition demand -- getting secret legal memos from the Justice Department. A senior Justice Department official said Tuesday that "99.8 percent" of the department's work with President-elect Barack Obama's transition team has gone smoothly. The 0.2 percent snag: The department has reservations about granting the team's request to review classified legal opinions related to secret CIA and National Security Agency programs."

 The Obama File, Part I: The Slumlord Connection  [12/10/08 ] "As novelist William Faulkner observed–”the past is never dead and buried, it isn’t even past.” As we look to the perilous future which President-elect Obama must navigate, it is important to anticipate some of the avenues of attack that the forces opposed to him might use. This program explores a web of associations in Chicago that connect Obama to the urban political machine of the Daley family and–more importantly–to a milieu of slumlords who’ve generated much of their wealth at the expense of poor African-Americans ..." 

 The Obama File, Part II: Badjacketing Obama  [12/21/08 ] "In light of the Machiavellian Rove’s penchant for “badjacketing”–setting up an individual or institution for discreditation by introducing false information and/or nefarious individuals into the milieu of the intended target–it is worth contemplating whether Rove may have seen Obama as just such a focal point ..."   See 12/10/08 for Part 1.

 The Ideology of No Ideology: Behind Obama's new "pragmatism"  [12/10/08 ] "On Friday, columnist David Brooks informed readers that Barack Obama’s picks “are not ideological.” The incoming president’s key economic advisers “are moderate and thoughtful Democrats,” while Hillary Clinton’s foreign-policy views “are hardheaded and pragmatic.” Last Saturday, The New York Times front page reported that the president-elect’s choices for secretaries of State and Treasury “suggest that Mr. Obama is planning to govern from the center-right of his party, surrounding himself with pragmatists rather than ideologues.” On Monday, hours before Obama’s formal announcement of his economic team, USA Today explained that he is forming a Cabinet with “records that display more pragmatism than ideology.” The ideology of no ideology is nifty. No matter how tilted in favor of powerful interests, it can be a deft way to keep touting policy agendas as common-sense pragmatism — virtuous enough to draw opposition only from ideologues. Meanwhile, the end of ideology among policymakers is about as imminent as the end of history. But — in sync with the ideology of no ideology — deference to corporate power isn’t ideological. And belief in the U.S. government’s prerogative to use military force anywhere in the world is a matter of credibility, not ideology."

 How Rahm Emanuel Made Mega-Millions and Bought His Way to Power  [12/10/08 ] "Since Rahm Emanuel was appointed the next White House chief of staff last month, ProPublica has been retracing his previous life as an investment banker, which earned him more than $18 million in less than three years. The New York Times recently shed new light on Emanuel's Wall Street days -- and how they helped send him to Congress."

 Obama Drops Windfall Profits Tax for Oil and Gas Industry"  [12/07/08 ] "The American Small Business League (ASBL) released the following video via YouTube this morning. In it the ASBL's Director of Government Affairs Kevin Baron reads the ASBL's recent press release regarding the Obama-Biden Transition Team's decision to drop its campaign promise to institute a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry ..."

 (CIA Stooge) Obama says South Asia is chief threat to U.S.  [12/02/08 ] "Barack Obama said on Monday militants based in South Asia represented the biggest threat to the United States and he was "absolutely committed" to eliminating the threat of terrorism."  No, it's not a threat to the United States. 

The Imperialism You Can Believe In   [11/20/08 ]  "While naive, giddy and myopic establishment leftists have been celebrating the great "change" heralded by the election of Barack Obama, the President elect has been busy appointing people to key positions who advocate the same Neo-Con imperialist foreign policy crafted during eight years of the Bush administration ... Obama's decision to appoint Eric Holder as Attorney General caused a flutter of controversy considering Holder's involvement in ensuring billionaire fugitive investor Marc Rich received a presidential pardon at the end of Bill Clinton's term, but the real dirt on Holder is far more shocking. After leaving the Clinton administration, Holder, who played a key role in the 2005 re-authorization of the Patriot Act, which Obama voted for, set up the legal and lobbying firm of Covington & Burling. The firm's most high-profile case was its defense of Chiquita Brands International, Inc, whose executives were facing charges of aiding terrorists for bankrolling and arming right-wing death squads in Colombia ... Holder’s record is not that of a champion of civil and democratic rights or a defender of the oppressed, but rather a legal servant of the corporations and the state, complicit in their criminality and repression." ... Holder's law enforcement deputy in the Obama administration is likely to be Robert Mueller, who will remain as FBI Director despite his involvement in the use of National Security Letters to illegally spy on American citizens via the collection of email, telecommunications and financial records .... Obama's head of the CIA transition team is none other than John Brennan, an aide to former CIA director George Tenet and a key participant in the formulation of policies that led to the torture scandal, extraordinary renditions and secret prisons .... Then we have Rahm Emanuel, "the enforcer", and Obama's new chief of staff. Emanuel is the son of a member of the Zionist terrorist group Irgun, which was responsible for bombing hotels, marketplaces as well as the infamous Deir Yassin massacre, in which hundreds of Palestinian villagers were slaughtered. When Emanuel's appointment was confirmed, top Israeli newspaper the Maariv Daily hailed the news with the headline, "Our man in the White House." Another Israeli news outlet, Y Net, reported, "Emanuel is pro-Israeli, and would not be willing to consider accepting the job unless he was convinced that President-elect Obama is pro-Israel." ... Recall that President elect Barack Obama's first act of "change" upon winning the Democratic presidential nomination back in June was to don a joint US-Israeli label pin, head on over to AIPAC and prostrate himself in front of the Israeli lobby, vowing to keep military action in mind for Iran and promising to hand over another $30 billion of American taxpayers' money in military assistance to the Zionist state."  Related: Obama’s “seamless transition” to endless war |Obama’s transition: A who’s who of imperialist policy |Obama’s attorney general pick and the illusion of change 

Obama Clearly Using Covert Hypnosis Methods   [11/19/08 ] Video [5:23] "Is Barack Obama a brilliant orator, captivating millions through his eloquence? Or is he deliberately using the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis developed by Milton Erickson, M.D.? A fundamental tool of "conversational hypnosis" is pacing and leading - a way for the hypnotist to bypass the listeners critical faculty by associating repeated statements that are unquestionably accurate with the message he wants to convey. In his Denver acceptance speech, Obama used the phrases "thats why I stand here tonight," "now is the time," and "this moment" 14 times. Paces are connected to the lead by words such as "and," "as," "because," or "that is why." For example, "we need change" (who could disagree?)"and that is why I will be your next President." Techniques of trance induction include extra slow speech, rhythm, tonalities, vagueness, visual imagery, metaphor, and raising of emotion. Hypnotists often have patients count. In a speech after the primaries closed, Obama said: "Sixteen months have passed (paused) "Thousands" (pause) "of miles" (pause) "Millions of voices". Hypnotists call this a distraction technique: sending the dominant hemisphere on an assignment involving linguistic processes, thus opening the nondominant hemisphere to suggestion."  Related: Obama: Hypnotist, NLP Practioner, Mind Control Guru

 Vendettas and Shady Ethics: Meet the Candidates to Replace Obama   [11/19/08 ] "Barack Obama's impending move to the White House has brought embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich new-found popularity, at least among those vying to replace Obama in the Senate."

 Hitler Kaput, Sig Heil Mein Fuehrer Obama   [11/16/08 ] "In all my life I have never seen such intense emotion surrounding a leader as that evoked by Barack Obama. Even Ronald Reagan, the Gipper himself, didn’t enjoy the kind of prostration of the will offered to the president-elect by hordes of followers. Yet, while people the world over are imbued with “hope” and chant Obama’s slogan “Yes, we can!” — for instance, the French are using their translation of it, “Oui, nous pouvons!” — some of the intense emotion is of a very different species. It is fear. In all my life I have never seen an American politician who could make so many Americans’ blood run cold. Some may mention the left’s feelings regarding Reagan or President Bush, but there is no equivalency. For all of leftists’ bluster and melodrama, they weren’t afraid of those men as much as they, well, just hated them. Sure, leftist ideologues said those two Republicans were scary, but the same people also said that each one was both dumb and Machiavellian. Hatred is an emotion, and emotion isn’t logical; it just conjures up whatever feels right at the moment .....  As Professor Manfred Weidhorn of Yeshiva University wrote: “… even if you are prescient enough to observe oncoming evils, you are prevented from acting precisely because other people .... lack your prescience. They therefore see you, rather than the evil person, as the deluded or warmongering malevolent soul. When Churchill warned about Hitler in the 1930s, many people became more upset with Churchill than with Hitler. The anomaly is that the prophet has therefore to wait for the evil to manifest itself and thereby to make everyone else see things the prophet’s way. But by then the chance to do anything may be gone.”

  Obama To Put Weekly Addresses On YouTube   [11/16/08 ] "Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube video and posted on Obama's transition site, Change.gov, once the radio address is made public on Saturday morning. The address will be taped at the transition office in Chicago today. "This is just one of many ways that he will communicate directly with the American people and make the White House and the political process more transparent," spokeswoman Jen Psaki told us last night. In addition to regularly videotaping the radio address, officials at the transition office say the Obama White House will also conduct online Q&As and video interviews. The goal, officials say, is to put a face on government. In the following weeks, for example, senior members of the transition team, various policy experts and choices for the Cabinet, among others, will record videos for Change.gov. Online political observers say President-elect Obama's innovative, online-fueled campaign will likely evolve into a new level of online communication between the public and the White House--the Internet-era version of President Franklin Roosevelt's famous "fireside chats" between 1933 and 1944. "The Obama team has written the playbook on how to use YouTube for political campaigns. Not only have they achieved impressive mass -- uploading over 1800 videos that have been viewed over 110 million times total -- but they've also used video to cultivate a sense of community amongst supporters," said Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube. "Obama told us in a YouTube interview last year that he plans to have 'fireside chats' on video, and we expect his administration will launch a White House YouTube channel very soon after taking office."

  Obama Silent On Speculation About Future Of Top Two Intelligence Officials   [11/12/08 ] "The nation's top two intelligence officers expect to be replaced by President-elect Barack Obama early in his administration, according to senior intelligence officials. A number of influential congressional Democrats oppose keeping Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and CIA Director Michael V. Hayden in their posts because both have publicly supported controversial Bush administration policies on interrogation and telephone surveillance. One Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee said there is a "consensus" view on the matter ... Both wish to remain on the job, officials say, though neither has said so publicly, and both think that their early departures could be seen as politicizing their offices and setting a precedent for automatic turnover when the White House changes hands. John Brennan, head of the Obama intelligence transition team, is one of several names that have surfaced, including Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), as possible replacements for McConnell or Hayden. Brennan, a former top CIA official who helped establish the National Counterterrorism Center as part of the 2004 reforms, left the agency in 2005 to become chief executive of the Analysis Corp., a Virginia consulting firm with intelligence contracts. He advised the Obama campaign on national security. Brennan's transition deputy, Jami A. Miscik, was CIA deputy director for intelligence before leaving for Lehman Brothers. Brennan and Miscik rose in the CIA ranks under Tenet and left when he was replaced by former congressman Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.), Hayden's predecessor. Brennan and Miscik were first identified as intelligence transition team leaders by the Wall Street Journal." 

 Obamania: a collective, frightening madness  [11/12/08 ] "...The imperial cult in ancient Rome was essentially a propaganda tool focused on leaders, a cult of personality. After the emperor's death, the apotheosis of the emperor would strengthen this cult. Fast-forward two thousands years and we are assisting to the apotheosis of Barack Obama, even before he sits on the imperial throne; miracles of our Global Village's propaganda (...) Barack Obama is young, handsome, charming and above all, he's cool; the perfect qualities for the modern cult of personality. We shall never forget however, empires don't elect presidents they select emperors. Corporate America - with its money and influence - has selected Barack Obama as next emperor of the US global empire. The Obama Campaign got more than $ 660 millions and money is generally accepted as a medium of exchange.. "

 Who Is The President Elect - Obama or AIPAC?  [11/12/08 ] "Too much hope, expectations that are too high, are both pathological and produce their shadow pathology - disappointment. We saw this earlier after the congressional elections;

 Democracy and Its Death Squad: Obama's Man in Afghanistan   [11/12/08 ] "To civilian liberals of a hawkish bent, General Petraeus projects the reassuring image of the thinking person’s general. It’s kind of hard to wrap one’s head around the idea that operating death squads might be an integral and perhaps the vital component of the vaunted Petraeus doctrine of counterinsurgency. Or that death squads will probably continue to play a central role in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan under an Obama administration..."   

 Obama set to push ‘big bang’ reform package  [11/10/08 ] "Barack Obama intends to push a comprehensive programme of social and economic reform beyond an immediate emergency stimulus package, Rahm Emanuel, the next White House chief of staff, indicated on Sunday. Mr. Emanuel brushed aside concerns that an Obama administration would risk taking on too much when it takes office in January. He said Mr. Obama saw the financial meltdown as an historic opportunity to deliver the large-scale investments that Democrats had promised for years."  What does that mean, Rahm?

 Obama Website Scrubs Mandatory Community Service Call   [11/10/08 ] "Following a controversy over language that appeared on Barack Obama’s official website suggesting that Americans would be mandated to complete up to 100 hours of community service as part of a national service program, the original text has been memory-holed and replaced with a more sanitized version."

 Brzezinski: Obama 'may be tested'