"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
MSM: "Obama-Appointed
US Trade Adviser Linked To Illegal Deal In Congolese Gold"[02/07/12]
"A US trade adviser appointed by Barack Obama orchestrated a deal to buy gold worth millions of dollars from a wanted Congolese warlord, according to a UN report.
Kase Lawal, a Nigerian-born US oil tycoon, transferred millions of dollars to the notorious rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda between December 2010 and February 2011 as part of the deal, the report by the UN’s Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC) states. If true, this would be a contravention of UN resolutions banning individuals or organisations from financing illegal armed groups in the wartorn eastern
DRC. The UN report says Lawal, the chairman and chief executive of the Houston-based oil firm
Camac, was aware he was paying Ntaganda. Obama put Lawal on the US advisory committee for trade and policy negotiations in September 2010, just months before the deal with
Ntaganda. According to the report, while Lawal was initially under the impression that he was buying gold from an owner in Kenya, he did not abort the deal when he learned Ntaganda was the true owner.
Instead, the UN report says Lawal merely “appeared relieved to finally be engaging directly with the true owner of the gold”. [...]"
MSM: "Obama’s Peace Prize About To Be Confiscated? Nobel Peace Prize Jury Under Investigation"[02/07/12]
"Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize’s original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed Wednesday. The investigation comes after persistent complaints by a Norwegian peace researcher that the original purpose of the prize was to diminish the role of military power in international relations.
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael
Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. [...]"
MSM: "Obama
On 'Super Bowl Sunday': ‘I Deserve A Second Term’"[02/06/12]
"President Obama said Sunday that he deserves to be reelected because his administration has made progress on the economy, but he acknowledged there is
"much more work to do". [...]" Note: Boy, talk about a delusional individual ... dumb as a
stone.
Commentary: "See No Evil: A Strange Absolution of Obama’s Warmongering"[02/03/12]
"It's hard to say which is more offensive in Patrick Cockburn's recent analysis of America’s warmongering toward Iran: his portrait of wily Jews manipulating and "bamboozling" the American power elite into acting against their own interests and good intentions; or the 'Amos and Andy' echoes in the image of a Negro President too dumb to know he's being played by wicked Hebrews. In any case, it is an astounding -- and dismaying -- performance from a writer who has long been one of the very best in delineating the operations of empire in the Middle East.
As so often happens, Arthur Silber has already been on the case. In his latest post, Silber notes that most of Cockburn's analysis is right on target. Cockburn he writes that the methods being used "by the US, Israel and West European leaders" to whip up war fever against Iran are "deeply dishonest," and "similar to the drumbeat of propaganda and disinformation about Iraq's non-existent weapons of mass destruction." Cockburn also says that sanctions, such as the ones recently imposed by the European Union on Iranian oil sales, "are likely to intensify the crisis, impoverish ordinary Iranians and psychologically prepare the ground for war because of the demonization of Iran." All of this is demonstrably and undeniably true. But then he goes on. Silber sets the scene (and adds the emphases):
But note what else Cockburn says, which is most definitely not similar to anything I've written. Writing about U.S. neoconservatives, the Likud Party and the Israel lobby in Washington, Cockburn states:
These are very much the same people who targeted Iraq in the 1990s. They have been able to force the White House to adopt their program and it is now, in turn, being implemented by a European Union that naively sees sanctions as an alternative to military conflict. ….
It is this latter policy [of toppling the Iranian government] that has triumphed. Israel, its congressional allies and the neoconservatives have successfully bamboozled the Obama administration into a set of policies that make sense only if the aim is overthrow of the regime in Tehran….
It is difficult not to admire the skill with which Netanyahu has maneuvered the White House and European leaders into the very confrontation with Iran they wanted to avoid. [...]"
MSM: "Michelle
Obama Cites 'Remarkable Progress' On The Economy (That Barely Exists)"[02/02/12]
"In the last three years, we've worked hard to get out of this mess and we've made some remarkable progress," the first lady told a group of about 135 supporters at a private campaign event for her husband. She listed President Obama's accomplishments on healthcare reform, the removal of troops from Iraq and the repeal of "Don't ask, don't tell" among other items on the list of "promises kept" touted by Obama's reelection campaign. [...]" Note: 135 supporters ... other reincarnated retread losers,
just like Michelle Obama ...
MSM: "Obama Tells Woman It Is "Interesting" Her Unemployed Husband Can't Find Job"[01/31/12]
[3:17]
"During his Google+ hangout Pres. Obama tells a woman that her husband shouldn't be unemployed from the growth he has seen in the economy. Obama said he finds it "interesting" because he is getting "the word" that someone in her husband's job field "should be able to find something right away."
Obama offered to do something if she would just send him her husband's resume.
The woman wants to know why Obama is extending visas for foreigners when there is tons of demand for American jobs by Americans.
"I don't know what your husband's speciality [is], but I can tell you that there is a huge demand around the country for engineers," Obama told the woman. [...]" Note: Another sequential trying to intellectualize emotion.
Commentary: "The Emperor Obama's Speech"
Lew Rockwell
[01/28/12]
"The other night, Emperor Palpatine gave his State of the Empire speech. You know, the Sith Lord from Star Wars. He channeled his Dark Presence right into the Capitol Building, where he transmogrified into our soon-to-be Galactic Emperor. I am far from the only person who noticed this, which proves I was not hallucinating. See for yourself. [...]"
Commentary: "Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA
"[01/27/12]
"Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight whatsoever.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the subject of a White House petition demanding
Senators be forced to ratify the treaty. The White House has circumvented the necessity to have the treaty confirmed by lawmakers by presenting it an as “executive agreement,” although legal scholars have highlighted the dubious nature of this characterization.
The hacktivist group Anonymous attacked and took offline the Federal Trade Commission’s website yesterday in protest against the treaty, which was also the subject of demonstrations across major cities in Poland, a country set to sign the agreement today.
Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs remove material from the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove content after a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a precedent that will apply globally, rendering the treaty worse in its potential scope for abuse than SOPA or
PIPA. [...]"
MSM: "Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin Over Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens Approved in NDAA"[01/24/12]
[12:10]
"Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges has filed suit against President Obama and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to challenge the legality of the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes controversial provisions authorizing the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world, without charge or trial. [...]"
Commentary: "The New Solyndras"[01/17/12]
"CBS News report on 12 other green energy companies who received questionable loans from the Obama administration.
Solar panel maker Solyndra received a $528 million Energy Department loan in 2009 - and went bankrupt last year. The government's risky investment strategy didn't stop there, as a CBS News investigation has uncovered a pattern of cases of the government pouring your tax dollars into clean energy. [...]"
Related: "Solar Energy Scandal - A $1.2 Billion Federal Loan, '10-15' Permanent Jobs And A New Facility In Mexico"
"The Department of Energy bragged about giving a $1.2 billion loan guarantee to
SunPower, a politically connected solar energy company, to create “10-15 permanent jobs,” raising critical questions as to if California SunPower is the next Solyndra in the ongoing Crony-Gate scandal.
Unlike Solyndra, which went bankrupt after receiving the loan from the government leaving taxpayer on the hook, SunPower’s deal is more complicated. Many questions are being raised about how the company was able to obtain the loan and what they did after they got the money. [...]" |
"Ga.
Failure Not The Only Ethanol Misadventure"
"Ethanol ventures backed by billionaire entrepreneur Vinod Khosla — including Range
Fuels, which built a failed factory in Georgia — were given the green light for an estimated $600 million in federal and state subsidies, according to an analysis by The Atlanta Journal- Constitution.
Yet none of the dozen or so companies financed or controlled by Khosla over the last decade has produced commercially viable ethanol. Some failed or, hamstrung by unproven technology and insufficient capital, remain behind schedule. Others bet on new technologies.
To date, the companies have tapped about $250 million of the $600 million. Even though they are now unlikely to ever receive the full amounts, tens of millions have been lost.
Range Fuels was approved for $162 million in grants, loans and loan guarantees for the Georgia venture. Half that amount was disbursed — and lost by taxpayers — for the cellulosic ethanol plant, now idle, in the east Georgia town of Soperton. [...]"
MSM: "SOPA
Shelved Indefinitely, Obama Succumbs To Pressure, Issues Official Veto Threat"[01/16/12]
"Misguided efforts to combat online privacy have been threatening to stifle innovation, suppress free speech, and even, in some cases, undermine national security. As of yesterday, though, there’s a lot less to worry about.
The first sign that the bills’ prospects were dwindling came Friday, when SOPA sponsors agreed to drop a key provision that would have required service providers to block access to international sites accused of piracy.
The legislation ran into an even more significant problem yesterday when the White House announced its opposition to the bills. Though the administration’s chief technology officials officials acknowledged the problem of online privacy, the White House statement presented a fairly detailed critique of the measures and concluded, “We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” It added that any proposed legislation “must not tamper with the technical architecture of the Internet.”
Though the administration did issue a formal veto threat, the White House’s opposition signaled the end of these bills, at least in their current form.
A few hours later, Congress shelved SOPA, putting off action on the bill indefinitely. [...]
In November, Obama issued a similar veto threat about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which allows for the detention of American citizens determined to be threats to national security and public safety on the domestic (U.S.) battlefront. He
flip-flopped on the issue just a couple of weeks
later, and signed the bill into law over New Year’s weekend to complete silence from the mainstream media.
It is our view that SOPA, in one form or another, will return with a vengeance.[...]"
Note: Obama is a perpetual liar about everything in his existence
and could never have been trusted.
Commentary: "Obama Administration Reportedly Plans to Create Internet ID for All Americans"[01/13/12]
"Obama is putting plans in motion to give the Commerce Department authority to create an Internet ID for all Americans, a White House official told
CNET.com. White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt told the website it is "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is currently being drafted by the Obama administration and will be released by the president in a few months. [...]
"We are not talking about a national ID card. We are not talking about a
government- controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy, and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said at an event Friday at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, according to
CNET.com. Locke added that the Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office to work on this project.
The move has raised eyebrows about privacy issues. "The government cannot create that identity infrastructure," Jim Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology told the website. "If I tried to, I wouldn't be trusted."
Schmidt stresses that anonymity will remain on the Internet, saying there's no chance that "a centralized database will
emerge.[...]"
MSM: "Obama's Chief of Staff Bill Daley Resigns"[01/10/12]
"William Daley is ending his tumultuous tenure with the Obama administration, stepping down as chief of staff to make way for current budget director Jack
Lew, White House sources tell the LA Times. Daley handed in his letter of resignation last week, and President Obama will announce the move this afternoon. Officials say Daley's resignation caught Obama by surprise; he had been counting on Daley to help navigate the impending budget showdown with Congress. [...]" Related:"Jack
Lew - Obama's New Chief of Staff"
"Obama's pick to succeed William Daley as his Chief of Staff is Jack Lew. Lew is currently a senior administration official who has served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Jack Lew is a practicing Orthodox Jew who observes Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest. He has been an active member of both Congregation Beth Sholom of Potomac and the Riverdale Jewish Center.[...]" |
"Daley Replacement Cashed In By Betting On Housing Crash"
"Obama's choice to lead the White House budget office oversaw a Citigroup unit that profited off the housing collapse and financial crisis by investing in a hedge fund king who correctly predicted the eventual subprime meltdown and now finds himself involved in the center of the U.S. government's fraud case against Goldman Sachs.
Jacob Lew, named Tuesday as Obama's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget to replace departing OMB chief Peter Orszag, served as chief operating officer of Citigroup Alternative Investments in 2008. He has served as a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton since the administration came into office.
Though Lew is a longtime public servant who's spent nearly 30 years in various positions throughout government, it is his few years at Citi -- in particular the one year he spent at its then-$54 billion proprietary trading, hedge fund and private equity unit -- that's likely to raise the most eyebrows in the coming weeks as Lew faces a Senate confirmation hearing.
Especially his unit's investments in a hedge fund that bet on the housing market to collapse -- a reality suffered by millions of American homeowners. [...]" Note: Another predatory individual.
MSM: "ACLU
Trashes Obama Over Indefinite Detention And Torture Act"[01/08/12]
"He will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law.”
These harsh words come courtesy of the executive director of the ACLU, formerly a supporter of the president but also just one of the many dissenters who have since have grown disillusioned with an administration tarnished by unfulfilled campaign promises and continuous constitutional violations.
When he signed the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year’s Eve, President Barack Obama said that he had his reservations over the controversial legislation that will allow for the indefinite detention of Americans.Now some of the president’s pals are expressing their agreement with Obama’s own hesitation but say that the commander-in-chief should have thought harder before signing away the civil liberties of Americans.
Under the bill, which approves all defense spending for the 2012 fiscal year, certain provisions allow for the military detainment and torture of US citizens, indefinitely, essentially allowing for Guantanamo Bay-style prisons to be a real possibility for every American. As the act floated around Congress, an underground outrage erupted and activists attempted to keep the bill from leaving the House and the Senate, although a lack of media coverage largely left the matter hidden to the public. Despite this campaign, the legislation made it out of the Capitol Building and into the Oval Office last month, prompting advocates against the act to petition for the president to veto it.
Initially the Obama administration said the president’s advisers would recommend a veto, but later rescinded the threat. Senator Carl Levin eventually revealed that President Obama had insisted on adding the wording that has made NDAA such a target among activists who are frightened of the civil liberty-stripping capabilities. [...]" Related: Can the NDAA be Legally Challenged Under Treaty Law?
"
" This may sound like a long shot legal strategy to defeat this tyrannical law called the National Defense Authorization Act. We not have only the US Constitution to call out this illegality of arresting American Citizens using the Military. We do also have treaty law too we can use to counter this abuse of power. I know throughout history, the US Government violated treaties with the native American Indians. They violate treaties everyday. They broke the law of the land with inhumane treatment at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib with torture and holding prisoners without cause. [...]"
| "NDAA: Open Season for the Police State"
MSM: "Obama
Rules As A Dictator, Says Ron Paul"[01/07/12]
"Much of Congress is calling out President Obama for his excessive use of executive power in a string of recess appointments this week. To some lawmakers, this isn’t the first time the commander-in-chief has stepped on the toes of his constituents.
To Ron Paul, in fact, Obama has transcended America into a practical dictatorship.
The commander-in-chief overstepped the Congress and appointed Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection, much to the chagrin of the US Senate, who were on recess at the time. Although the president has the power to make such appointments during Senate recess sessions, lawmakers have since become outraged that Obama could not have waited for them to give Cordray the go-ahead.
Now the new CFP chief will sit pretty in a paid federal position and await a decision from Congress to either approve or disapprove Obama’s appointment — a decision which could be months in the making. In the meanwhile, Cordray lacks any official authority to rule the
CFP, essentially allowing him to vacate a ghost opening and be compensated for simply sitting pretty.
But why would the president do such a thing? “It is disappointing that a former constitutional law professor does not understand that the President is not a dictator or a king who can simply ignore the Constitution whenever he feels frustrated by the system of checks and balances wisely put in place by our Founders,” Texas congressman and GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul says in an official statement.
His move, says the legendary libertarian politicians, shows a “clear disregard of the Constitution” and a “flagrant contempt for the rules.” [...]"
MSM: "Obama:
The US Can No Longer Fight The World's Battles: 500,000 Troops
To Join Unemployed - Replaced By Technology"[01/06/12]
"After the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that defined the first decade of the 20th century, Mr Obama's blueprint for the military's future acknowledged that America will no longer have the resources to conduct two such major operations simultaneously.
Instead, the US military will lose up to half a million troops and will focus on countering terrorism and meeting the new challenges of an emergent Asia dominated by China. America, the President said, was "turning the page on a decade of war" and now faced "a moment of transition". [...]" Related:"Obama’s
New Pentagon Strategy: Strip Benefits And Buy More Weapons"
"Pensions and health care plans for US troops will be drastically reduced under a new budget presented by US President Barack Obama on Thursday. Not all aspects of the DoD will be annihilated, however.
The DoD will ditch medical benefits for troops but continue to spend on its expensive arsenal of doom. [...]"
MSM: "Obama
Defies Congress With ‘Recess’ Picks"[01/05/12]
"Obama used his recess appointment powers Wednesday to name a head for the controversial Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new members to the National Labor Relations Board — moves Republican lawmakers said amounted to an unconstitutional power grab.
The president acted just a day after the Senate held a session — breaking with at least three different precedents that said the Senate must be in recess for at least three days for the president to exercise his appointment power. Mr. Obama himself was part of two of those precedents, both during his time in the Senate and again in 2010 when one of his administration’s top constitutional lawyers made the argument for the three-day waiting period to the Supreme Court. [...]"
Related:"Unprecedented “Recess” Appointment Contradicts Obama Justice Department
"
"President Obama today made an unprecedented “recess” appointment even though the Senate is not in recess – “a sharp departure from a long-standing precedent that has limited the President to recess appointments only when the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer,” according to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
It turns out that the action not only contradicts long-standing practice, but also the view of the administration itself. In 2010, Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained to the Supreme Court the Obama administration’s view that recess appointments are only permissible when Congress is in recess for more than three days. Here’s the exchange with Chief Justice John Roberts: [...]
Speaker Boehner called the appointment an “extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab,” and noted that the position “had not been filled for one reason: the agency it heads is bad for jobs and bad for the economy.” Read his full statement here, and read the statement from Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)"
Commentary: "Obama Signs
'Homeland Battlefield' Bill Into Law"[01/01/12]
"President Obama today signed the highly controversial Defense Spending Bill. The National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA), with its so-called Homeland Battlefield provisions, allows, according to many legal scholars, the indefinite detention of US citizens by the US military. What is most striking is a lengthy signing statement by
Obama, in which he maintains his reservations about the Homeland Battlefield provisions, saying, 'I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists.' His defense of civil liberties in the signing statement was passionate. Nonetheless, at the same moment, he signed the bill into law. [...]"
Commentary: "Loom
Of The Jackboot: Obama Gives Military Extreme Powers"[12/24/11]
"Too Bad Kim Jong-il kicked the bucket last weekend. If the divine hand that laid low the North Korean leader had held off for a week or so, Kim would have been sustained by the news that President Obama had signed into law a bill that puts the United States not immeasurably far from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in contempt of constitutional protections for its citizens, or constitutional restraints upon criminal behaviour sanctioned by the state.
At least the DPRK doesn't trumpet its status as the last best sanctuary of liberty. American politicians, starting with the president, do little else.
A couple of months ago I signaled to Week readers America's steady slide downhill towards the status of a Banana Republic, with Obama's assertion that he has the right as president to order secretly the assassination, without trial, of a US citizen he deems to be working with terrorists. This followed his betrayal in 2009 of his pledge to end the indefinite imprisonment without charges or trial of prisoners in
Guantanamo. After months of declaring that he would veto such legislation, Obama has now crumbled and will soon sign a monstrosity called the Levin/McCain detention bill, named for its two senatorial sponsors, Carl Levin and John McCain. It's snugged into the 2012 National Defence Authorisation Act. [...]"
MSM: "Obama will not veto National Defense Authorization Act"[12/15/11]
"The White House on Wednesday said it would not veto the controversial National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA). President Barack Obama’s spokesman Jay Carney said lawmakers who crafted a compromise version from rival Senate and House versions of the legislation had addressed his worries about proposed tough rules on detainees.
The legislation has been the subject of considerable criticism. At one point the bill contained a provision that would have authorized the U.S. to use military force anywhere there were terrorism suspects, including within the U.S. itself. The American Civil Liberties Union described it as authorizing a “worldwide war without end.”
The section was removed from the bill in
July. But other controversial provisions, Sections 1031 and 1032, remained. The provisions would have authorized the U.S. to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists anywhere in the world without charge or trial, and hold them in military custody. [...]" Related: "40 Members of Congress Protest ‘Indefinite Detention’ Bill"
"40 members of Congress have sent an urgent letter to House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders protesting provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would legalize indefinite detention of American citizens without trial, as the revised version of the bill heads for a final vote on Thursday.
“The Senate-passed version of the NDAA, S. 1867, contains Section 1031, which authorizes indefinite military detention of suspected terrorists without protecting U.S. citizens’ right to trial.
We are deeply concerned that this provision could undermine the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth amendment rights of U.S. citizens who might be subjects of detention or prosecution by the military,” states the letter. [...]"
MSM: "Grand
Jury Begins Probe Of Solyndra"[12/15/11]
"A grand jury has begun investigating Solyndra LLC, the failed California solar-panel maker that lost more than a half-billion dollars in federal loans, according to law-firm billing records.
Weeks after Solyndra filed for bankruptcy in September, a judge allowed the company to hire a law firm to represent it in what court records at the time called a “federal criminal investigation.”
Now the firm, K&L Gates, has filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware a detailed, hour-by-hour account of how attorneys have been spending their time. Most of their efforts have focused on what the firm called the U.S. attorney’s office and Department of Justice investigation of
Solyndra. In an 18-page invoice from the law firm dated Dec. 9, the words “grand jury” appear numerous times: “Prepare response to grand jury subpoena,” one entry reads. Another said, “Review and prepare documents to respond to grand jury subpoena.”
The invoices also point to a meeting on Oct. 14 between K&L Gates attorney Jeffrey L. Bornstein, a former federal prosecutor in San Francisco, and an assistant U.S. attorney identified in the billing records only as “J.
Nedrow.” Jeffrey Nedrow is an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, which is the same office overseeing the Solyndra investigation. Mr. Nedrow was a prosecutor in the criminal trial against former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds.
Yet another entry refers to a telephone call with “AUSA” — an abbreviation in legal circles that refers to assistant U.S. attorney — “regarding grand jury subpoena.”
The formation of an investigative grand jury would mark a significant development in the criminal investigation into Solyndra, which saw its offices raided by the FBI within days of its bankruptcy filing in September.
“The subpoenas would be just the tip of the iceberg,” said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor and now a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “The first things to happen in grand juries are subpoenas to collect every possible document you can.” [...]"
Commentary: "Obama
And Israel’s Security"[12/04/11]
"If American election campaign funders who support Israel right or wrong formed a circle and demanded that President Obama stand naked in the middle of it while they sang Hava Nagila (“Let us rejoice”), I am sure he would agree to do so. That thought came into my mind when I read the Reuters’ report, published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, of what Obama said to a group of fundraisers in the Manhattan home of Jack Rosen, the chairman of the American Jewish Congress. [...]"
Commentary: "The Obama Doctrine: Imperialism Masked as "Humanitarian Interventionism"[12/03/11]
"The Obama administration, in yet another display of the use of Orwellian language, has embarked on a military doctrine called "Mass Atrocity Prevention" (MAP), the Pentagon operational plan to implement the White House's "R2P" or "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine. Essentially, the Pentagon doctrine is crafted to militarily support the intervention of regional and worldwide international forces operating under the umbrella of NATO, UN, the African Union, the Organization of American States (OAS), the Arab League, and other organizations in the name of “humanitarian” intervention to prevent widespread massacres. The doctrine’s first major test case was in Libya, where NATO forces, in support of Western- and Saudi/Gulf potentate-backed rebel forces, ousted the 42 year-old regime of Muammar Qaddafi.
And in yet another display of oxymoronic Orwellian “Newspeak,” the main Defense Department activity for developing “Mass Atrocity Response Operations” or “MARO” is the Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
(PKSOI) at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The new American justification for military intervention arises from Presidential Study Directive 10/PSD-10, a memorandum issued by the White House on August 4, 2011, which created an Interagency Atrocities Prevention Board and interagency review to bring administration policy in line with a new presidential policy that deems “preventing mass atrocities and genocide” a “core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States.” [...]"
Commentary: "Obama
Cover-Up? Court Records Of Border Patrol Agent Murder Sealed"[12/03/11]
"The Obama Administration has suddenly and without warning sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a federal government snafu that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico, according to a top non-partisan organization that investigates government corruption and fraud. [...]"
Commentary: "20
Examples Of The Obama Administration Assault On Domestic Civil Liberties"[12/02/11]
"The Obama administration has affirmed, continued and expanded almost all of the draconian domestic civil liberties intrusions pioneered under the Bush administration. Here are twenty examples of serious assaults on the domestic rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, the right to privacy, the right to a fair trial, freedom of religion, and freedom of conscience that have occurred since the Obama administration has assumed power. Consider these and then decide if there is any fundamental difference between the Bush presidency and the Obama presidency in the area of domestic civil liberties. [...]"
MSM: "US
Wants Debt Action As Obama Hosts Eurozone Summit"[11/29/11]
"The United States said Monday that Europe needed to act "now" with force and decisiveness to attack the eurozone debt crisis, as President Barack Obama hosted a summit with top European officials.
The US-European summit at the White House came amid stark new warnings on the depths of the eurozone turmoil and renewed fears that the exposure to Europe of US banks could rebound and harm the slow US economic recovery. [...]" Note: Talk about the blind leading the blind.
MSM: "Leading
Senators: Kagan May Have To Recuse Herself From Health Case"[11/20/11]
"Top Republican senators said late Friday the Justice Department has been stonewalling their request for more information on Supreme CourtJustice Elena
Kagan, and said her previous work as solicitor general “may satisfy both requirements for
recusal” from the upcoming health-care case. The senators, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are demanding Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. comply with requests for more documents about Justice Kagan’s role in planning the administration’s defense, and said unless he provides the information it could undermine confidence in the court’s eventual ruling on the case. [...]"
MSM: "Obama
Moves To Legalize Cluster Munitions"[11/19/11]
"The Obama Administration is pushing to allow the use of a weapon prohibited by an international treaty because of its indiscriminate killing and maiming of civilians, particularly children. The US is seeking clearance for all cluster munitions made after 1980 even though the weapons are currently banned by 111 states that have agreed to the Convention on Cluster Munitions
(CCM). [...]" Note: Alfred Nobel made his money through munitions. Is it
irony, or simply consistency, that a 'Nobel Peace prize' winner would
prosecute war and disorder.
Commentary: "Obama:
First American President To Name His Own Citizens As A Threat To National
Security"[11/18/11]
[0:00]
"Foreign Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin today are warning that an already explosive situation in the United States is about to get a whole lot worse as a new law put forth by President Obama is said capable of seeing up to 500,000 American citizens jailed for the crime of opposing their government.
Sparking the concern of Russian diplomats over the growing totalitarian bent of the Obama government is the planned reintroduction of what these reports call one of the most draconian laws ever introduced in a free society that is titled “The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act”.
First introduced in the US Congress in 2007 by Democratic Representative Jane Harmon, this new law passed the US House of Representatives by a secretive voice vote, but failed to pass the US Senate, after which it was believed dead until this past week when it was embraced by Obama who became the first American President to name his own citizens as a threat to his Nations security.
In what is called the National Security Strategy document, that is required of US Presidents by their Congress, that embraces the dictatorial ideals of the
“Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention
Act”, Obama has ordered his Federal police and intelligence forces to begin targeting Americans opposed to him and his radical socialist polices.
Obama’s top counter-terrorism advisor, John Brennan, in speaking to reporters about this new “strategy” says it makes the problem of home-grown terrorists a top priority because an increasing number of individuals in the US have become “captivated by extremist ideology or causes.”
The Times of London is further reporting that Obama’s new National Security Strategy “officially” ends America’s “War on Terror” in what they call “a sweeping repudiation of the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive military strikes.”
And as Obama begins re-focusing his forces from fighting America’s foreign enemies, to those opposed to him in his own country, it is important to remember the warning about this new law given by the former CIA official, Philip Giraldi, who had previously warned of the Bush-Cheney plan to attack Iran with nuclear weapons, and who said:
“The mainstream media has made no effort to inform the public of the impending Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. The Act, which was sponsored by Congresswoman Jane Harman of California, was passed in the House by an overwhelming 405 to 6 vote on October 24th and is now awaiting approval by the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which is headed by Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.
[...]" Note: Lieberman ... putz.
MSM: "Man
With "Israel" Tattoo On His Neck Arrested In White House Shooting"[11/18/11]
"The web posting describes Ortega-Hernandez, who is from Idaho, as 5 feet, 11 inches and 160 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair and with the following marks: "His right hand has a tattoo of three dots, he has a tattoo stating 'Ortega' on his upper back, a tattoo on his right chest of rosary beads and hands clasped in prayer, a tattoo of folded hands on left chest, and the words 'Israel' tattooed on left side of neck."
Photos of a bearded Ortega pictured outdoors and smiling, and showing his "Israel" tattoo in a flowery script, appear on the web posting. It is not clear how the police obtained the photos. [...]"
Related:Commentary: "Zionist
Bullets: Shots Across Obama’s Bow?"
"To those brainwashed by America’s Zionist corporate media, the question sounds like paranoid fantasy. But the truth is that powerful geopolitical actors do sometimes attempt to intimidate each other through “plausibly deniable” threats. And the Zionists, masters of hardball
realpolitik, are said to do such things with some regularity, not to mention chutzpah.
Item: Obama leaves his microphone on to tell the world that Netanyahu is a liar. Zionist flack Dennis Ross is ejected from the White House. It looks like Obama isn’t going to obey Netanyahu’s orders to attack Iran. [...]"
Commentary: "Money for Nothing & Where have All Our Dollars Gone"[11/17/11]
"Did you know that we haven’t had a single case of smallpox in the United States for
over 60 years? To be exact, the last case of smallpox was in 1949. So, why would Obama hand out $433 Million, let’s put the zeros all in there to get a better sense, $433,000,000, on experimental smallpox drugs? Ain’t that a logical question to ask?
You see there is this billionaire guy. His name is Ronald Perelman, and he is one of the world’s richest men who happens to be a longtime Democratic Party supporter. This Obama-Backer Perelman guy owns stock in Siga Technologies Inc., which received the smallpox drug contract over the objections of specialists in the Department of Health & Human Services.
So, what happened to those who objected to this outrageous sum being paid for ludicrous unjustified experimentation? Well, the department’s lead negotiator for the deal who objected to Siga’s financial demands was replaced. Poof. Just like that.
But wait, that’s not all. The Obama administration also blocked other companies from bidding on the work, to ensure that Siga received a non-competitive contract deal.
Siga will be delivering 1.7 million doses of smallpox drug to our government “in case” there’s ever a bio-terror attack. Aha. Let’s remind ourselves again with hard data:
The last time an American was diagnosed with the disease was 1949, and the last case of naturally occurring smallpox anywhere in the world was in 1977.
So my friends, what are you going to do about it? Are you thinking of contacting your congressional representatives? I think you better think twice before wasting your time and energy. You see, congress is following the same trend-just like their corrupt stinking con president. Let me get more specific here: [...]"
Related: "Obama Awards
No-Bid Contract To Donor For Experimental Drugs As Remedy for Fabricated Threat"[11/13/11]
"Obama awards $433 million no-bid contract for questionable drug to a longtime political donor,
who gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not
exist. [...] Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work.
Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world's richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor.
When Siga complained that contracting specialists at the Department of Health and Human Services were resisting the company's financial demands, senior officials replaced the government's lead negotiator for the deal, interviews and documents show.
When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the contract a year ago, the officials blocked other firms from competing.
Siga was awarded the final contract in May through a "sole-source" procurement in which it was the only company asked to submit a proposal. The contract calls for Siga to deliver 1.7 million doses of the drug for the nation's biodefense stockpile. The price of approximately $255 per dose is well above what the government's specialists had earlier said was reasonable, according to internal documents and interviews."
MSM: "Scalia
And Thomas Dine With Healthcare Law Challengers As Court Takes Case"[11/16/11]
"The day the Supreme Court gathered behind closed doors to consider the politically divisive question of whether it would hear a challenge to President Obama’s healthcare law, two of its justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, were feted at a dinner sponsored by the law firm that will argue the case before the high court.
The occasion was last Thursday, when all nine justices met for a conference to pore over the petitions for review. One of the cases at issue was a suit brought by 26 states challenging the sweeping healthcare overhaul passed by Congress last year, a law that has been a rallying cry for conservative activists nationwide. [...]"
MSM:"Ron Paul: Obama Presidency On The Verge Of Being A
"Dictatorship"[11/10/11]
[8:41]
"Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) says President Obama's continued use of the executive order "brings the modern presidency dangerously close to an elective dictatorship."
"That is arrogant," Paul said of Obama frequently using the executive order function as of late. "It is flaunting the Constitution and the whole principle of how we’re supposed to operate. The idea they can just do this and take over the legislative function and brag about it -- and Congress does nothing and the courts do nothing about it, it's very, very bad."
"He's dictatorial, is what he is," Rep. Paul said before the end of the interview. [...]"
Related: "Ron Paul to Bill O’Reilly: I Don’t Like Demagogues"[8:00]
MSM: "US Energy Dept. Spent $89 Billion without Checking Contractors’ Past Records
"[11/09/11]
"Nearly $90 billion in contracts were awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy over a two-year period without officials bothering to review the performance of the companies that were hired.
Included in this spending were federal stimulus monies that were supposed to go to “shovel ready” projects that could quickly produce new jobs for the economy. But many of these investments were not carefully examined before the Energy Department doled out its billions of dollars on work that was not even close to creating employment opportunities.
The department’s inspector general reviewed 519 contracts from fiscal years 2009 and 2010 and found that 20% (or 104) were not scrutinized to see if the contractors previously had done a good job. As a result, officials failed to make sure they were “making best value selections in competitive awards and in making contractor responsibility determinations for sole-source contracts,” according to the IG’s report.
IG Gregory Friedman also discovered that when it came to spending Recovery Act funds, there were “few actual ‘shovel ready’ projects” approved by the Energy Department.
Friedman’s office currently has more than 100 criminal investigations open into contractor deals, including the much-criticized Solyndra affair that could cost taxpayers $535 million. [...]"
MSM: "White
House Rejects Subpoena Request For Solyndra Docs"[11/06/11]
"Obama's attorney sent a letter to Congressional investigators on Friday, saying the White House would not cooperate with a subpoena requesting documents related to its doling out a $535 million loan guarantee to now bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra. [...]"
Commentary: "Obama
To The World: ‘Do As We Say, Not As We Do’"[10/30/11]
"It’s not so much we are witnessing history unfold, as it is Washington’s hypocrisy unravel before our eyes.
Washington is infested with busy-bodies who run from one briefing to the next, one press conference to the next, in a drive to conduct their symphonies of policy and media in a desperate bid to remain relevant. Some try harder than others. Inside the beltway, original ideas, humility, honor and integrity are somewhat hard to come by these days.
They are the high-flying political class in the United States, an elite tribe who are so detached from reality that it’s become an almost embarrassment to watch. The Orwellian doublespeak which is now coming out the State Department’s office of nation-building is hitting new highs. [...]" Note: The US is a cancer country ... so this is 'normal' for them.
Commentary: "Lyndon LaRouche: Obama as Surrogate Emperor"[10/26/11]
[79:43]
"Following the release of his most recent report, Our Credit System, Lyndon LaRouche delivered the following hour-long address. [...]"
Note: Yes, the pathology expressed in the white house is very
interesting.
MSM: "Obama
Says He’ll Be Taking ‘Executive Actions’ Without Congress On ‘Regular
Basis’ To ‘Heal The Economy’"[10/25/11]
"Obama told an audience in Nevada on Monday that he will be announcing “executive actions” his administration will take to “heal the economy” without the “dysfunctional” Congress.
“I’m here to say to all of you and to say to the people of Nevada and the people of Las Vegas, we can’t wait for an increasingly dysfunctional Congress to do its job. Where they won’t act, I will,” Obama said.
“I’ve told my administration to keep looking every single day for actions we can take without Congress, steps that can save consumers money, make government more efficient and responsive, and help heal the economy. And we’re going to be announcing these executive actions on a regular basis,” the president said. [...]" Note: Moron.
MSM: "On
Solyndra: President's Blackberry Off Limits"[10/16/11]
"Congress isn't getting a glimpse of what's on President Barack Obama's Blackberry - or any more internal White House communications related to the bankrupt solar company Solyndra, which received a $535 million loan guarantee from the federal government. [...]"
MSM: "Another Solar Energy Scandal - A $1.2 Billion Federal Loan, '10-15' Permanent Jobs And A New Facility In Mexico"[10/14/11]
"Unlike Solyndra, which went bankrupt after receiving the loan from the government leaving taxpayer on the hook, SunPower’s deal is more complicated. Many questions are being raised about how the company was able to obtain the loan and what they did after they got the money. [...]" Note: More money down the rat hole of political cronyism. All to create 10-15 permanent jobs. That's not some silly estimate, that's what the Department of Energy thought would result...
Interview:"Wall Street Insider: Obama 2012 Re-Election “Not An Option”"[10/11/11]
"... Ulsterman: What if Obama – President Obama…what if he wins re-election?
WS Insider: As our mutual acquaintance has already told you, that is simply not an
option. I want to make something clear here – perhaps I haven’t done so enough. I have the utmost respect for the position of president. I have come to hold little respect for the individual who currently holds that position. I am absolutely convinced of his inability to comprehend even a fraction of what is happening around him. He is not so much stupid…I don’t wish to say that – but he is clearly very-very ignorant. There appear to be those around him who like it that way. Sadly, in order to get to them, we must first inflict a certain degree of damage onto the office of president.
Ulsterman: What do you mean by damage? WS Insider: Fast and Furious is a serious offense to be sure. What has been revealed – to this point only partially, by the Solyndra scandal, is far more serious, not only to this administration but to the entire Democratic Party. Many of them have their hands in the corruption that was the Obama Stimulus Bill of 2009. [...] Solyndra is but one small example of how that money was spent. The dealings that took place under the false guise of saving the economy. It is my personal understanding – and this is the talk of others in positions of some influence, that Solyndra – what Solyndra could ultimately reveal, could prove far more damaging to the entire political system…and certainly to the Democratic Party. –Name withheld- has spent their adult life protecting that party, promoting that party, and they have made a fine living for themselves doing so. That kind of loyalty, while admirable, can prove somewhat debilitating when it comes to the kind of… absolution necessary to right these kinds of wrongs. I will say this – I cannot recall when so many who are so powerful have been so afraid as there are at this time. [...]"
Interview:
"Exclusive: Sam Vaknin on Obama's Narcissism"[10/10/11]
[62:44]
"An exclusive LPAC interview with Sam Vaknin, author of the bestseller "Malignant Self-Love", the definitive book on clinical narcissism. Vaknin emphasizes the frightening and cataclysmic implications of Barack Obama's incurable mental state, and underscores the critical importance of Lyndon LaRouche's dire warnings that Obama's psychology mirrors that of Emperor Nero and Adolf Hilter -- and will turn out to be just as destructive for the nation and the world, unless removed from office under the provision of the 25th Amendment. [...]" Part 2[46:46]
"In the first LPACTV interview with Sam Vaknin it was established what the malignant narcissist, Obama, was, and how he would react to the situation around him. Now, we follow-up on our patient, who unfortunately still occupies the White House. With a worsening breakdown crisis and no Glass-Steagall in place, this narcissist will be unable to manage himself at all. This cascade of disintegration culminates in "decompensation" and "acting out", which would assuredly ruin the nation and the world, unless Obama is immediately removed from office NOW [...]"
Commentary: "SOLYNDRAGATE: Huge Email Dump Implicates Obama And Rahm In Bankruptcy Scandal"[10/08/11]
"The White House released a bunch of emails related to the Solyndra bankruptcy scandal to Congressional investigators today, in what has become a regular Friday evening email dump.
The emails, obtained by several news organizations, implicate the most senior levels of the Obama administration in scandal, which has tainted the White House since the solar company went bankrupt last month, leaving taxpayers on the hook for a $534 billion federal loan.Here are the highlights: [...]"
MSM: "Obama
Seeks Debt Collector Proposal"[10/05/11]
"To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Barack Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to call the
cell phones of consumers delinquent on student loans and other billions owed the federal government.
Whatever the impact on the budget deficit, the proposal has aligned the White House with the private debt collection industry - frequently the subject of consumer complaints - at a time when the economy is weak, unemployment is high and Obama is embarking on his campaign for re-election. [...]
Several aides, speaking on condition of anonymity so they could talk freely, said Democrats do not want to oppose the president but are unable to support the request. [...]
Federal law currently permits private debt collectors to use automatic dialing in trying to contact consumers on their landline phones. They also are permitted to make individually dialed calls to some
cellphones. The request comes at a time when the government is looking for ways to collect tens of billions of dollars.
According to a report by the Treasury Department's Financial Management Service, the Education and the Health and Human Services departments as well as FMS itself referred debts totaling $35.9 billion to private debt collectors in the 2010 fiscal year.
The Education Department accounted for the largest share by far - $28.8 billion referred to 22 private debt collection companies. The firms collected $685 million outright, and another $1.7 billion was recast into agreements that are designed to be paid monthly, according to the report.[...]"
Interview:
"Obama May Cancel 2012 Elections - Dr. Jerome Corsi"[10/05/11]
[14:09] Part 2 [9:15]
"Dr. Jerome Coris joins Alex Jones on this Infowars Nightly News Monday Edition to discuss who is
Barack H Obama and will he cancel the 2012 elections under the cover of economic collapse? [...]"
MSM: "Dems
Want Law To Keep Obama Records Secret"[10/05/11]
"In an obvious effort to protect President Barack Obama, a group of congressional Democrats has introduced legislation to create an official process that will allow the commander-in-chief to keep presidential records secret after he leaves office.
Ironically, Obama revoked a similar George W. Bush order in one of his first official acts as president. In 2001 Bush penned an executive order severely limiting public access to his presidential records. Shortly after swearing in, Obama killed it as part of his much-ballyhooed commitment to government transparency. At the time, the new president claimed that he was giving the American people greater access to “historic documents.”
It was the right move. The Bush Administration did indeed demonstrate a disappointing penchant for secrecy and Judicial Watch was a frontrunner in the effort to make records public. Examples include: The Dick Cheney Energy Task Force records that JW pursued before the United States Supreme Court; Attorney General John Ashcroft’s order advising government agencies to withhold all discretionary disclosures; invoking executive privilege to block the House Government Reform Committee’s probe of the Campaign Financing Task Force.
If the Democrats’ proposed measure (Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011) becomes law, former presidents will be allowed to assert a new “constitutionally based privilege” against disclosing records of their liking. Here is how it would work; the Archivist of the United States would be required to notify the former president, as well as the incumbent, of intentions to make records public. Anything that either the former or current president claims should be kept private won’t be released. [...]"
LaRouche: "Obama Abandons the Industrial Heartland"[10/04/11]
"Obama's re-election strategy in 2012 will be to focus on people with money, especially up-and-coming Hispanic and black families, and upper-income white transplants in states like Colorado, Virginia and North Carolina. This is already evident in the amount of time he spends delivering speeches at campaign fundraising dinners as opposed to actually being
'President'. [...]"
MSM: "Hundreds
Of Plants, Animals Up For New Protections"[10/02/11]
"The Obama administration is taking steps to extend new federal protections to a list of imperiled animals and plants that reads like a manifest for Noah's Ark - from the melodic golden-winged warbler and slow-moving gopher tortoise, to the slimy American eel and tiny Texas kangaroo rat.
Compelled by a pair of recent legal settlements, the effort in part targets species that have been mired in bureaucratic limbo even as they inch toward potential extinction.
With a Friday deadline to act on more than 700 pending cases, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service already has issued decisions advancing more than 500 species toward potential new protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Observers said the agency's actions mark a breakthrough for a program long criticized by conservatives and liberals alike as cumbersome and slow.
"Here at a single glance, you see the sweep of the Endangered Species Act," said Patrick
Parenteau, an environmental law professor at the University of Vermont. "They are moving through this large backlog at a fairly crisp clip now. This is the largest number of listing actions we've seen in a very long time, in decades." [...]"
[Use of violations for social control and manipulation. This will further cripple
private use of land and water, which is the real purpose of the program, not protection or endangered species.]
Commentary: "Obama Admits He Is Ethically Challenged; Doesn't Know Right from Wrong"[09/29/11]
"In a back-to-school speech at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C., yesterday, Barack Obama admitted that ethics was not his favorite subject and that he still does not always know what is right and wrong.
"If you promise not to tell anyone, I'll let you in on a little secret: I wasn't always the very best student. I didn't love every class I took. I remember when I was in eighth grade, I had to take a class called ethics. Ethics is about right and wrong, but if you'd have asked me what my favorite subject was in eighth grade, I'd have said 'basketball.' I don't think ethics would have made the list.
"But you know what? I still remember that ethics class. I remember the way it made me think. Each question led to a new one, and I didn't always know the answer right away. But those discussions and that process of discovery are still with me today. Every day, I'm thinking about what those issues mean for us as a nation. I'm asking all sorts of questions just like those. And I'll let you in on another secret: I still don't always know the answers." [...]"
MSM: "Obama Fundraisers Tied to Firms That Got Federal Cash"[09/29/11]
"Several of Barack Obama's top campaign supporters went from soliciting political contributions to working from within the Energy Department as it showered billions in taxpayer-backed stimulus money on alternative energy firms, [...]"
MSM: "U.S.
Judge Blasts Obama Scientists Calling Them "Liars"[09/27/11]
"A federal judge blasted Obama Administration-connected scientists on
Friday for their lying to justify a drastic reduction in the amount of water
that flows into California’s central valley for the sake of protecting
“endangered” fish, according to a blogger for a major public-interest
group that investigates government corruption. The feds provided “equivocal
or bad science,” in order to divert two years’ worth of water from the
state’s central valley farmland, according to a 279-page opinion issued this
week by U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger in Fresno, California.
[...]"
Commentary: "Obama
Appoints 9/11 Scriptwriter Philip Zelikow To Intelligence Advisory Board"[09/21/11]
"Zelikow describes himself as an expert in the “creation and maintenance of public myths.” He defines “public myth” as a “public presumption” about history that may or may not be true, but which nevertheless exerts a powerful influence on public opinion, and through that influence affects history.
Zelikow gives the official account of Pearl Harbor – the story of the “dastardly Japanese sneak attack” – as a prime example of the kind of “public myth” he specializes in creating and maintaining. Zelikow’s close colleague and fellow neocon extremist Paul Wolfowitz has exhibited a lifelong obsession with the immense strategic value of Pearl Harbor. Wolfowitz has repeatedly cited a remark by Albert Speer to the effect that if Germany had been blessed with a Pearl Harbor it would have won World War II. (Source: Brian Bogart, University of Oregon – Truth Jihad Radio interview, 2007)
Therefore, in the eyes of neocons such as Zelikow, FDR was wise to adopt McCollum’s Eight Point Plan designed to force the Japanese to launch a sneak attack on America. (Stinnett, Day of Deceit, 6-11). Pearl Harbor was not just a godsend – it was a US-orchestrated event, and the 2,403 Americans murdered there were murdered by the US government as well as the Japanese. [...]"
MSM: "Issa
To Launch Probe Of Obama Actions On Solyndra, Lightsquared"[09/21/11]
"Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that his committee plans to investigate government loan programs to private corporations in light of allegations of improper dealings between the White House and failed energy company Solyndra and wireless start-up
LightSquared. “I want to see when the president and his cronies are picking winners and losers… it wasn’t because there were large contributions given to them,” the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Tuesday morning on C-SPAN. [...]"
Commentary: "Obama Pattern of Delay and Deny in Response to Disasters"[09/20/11]
"The Obama Administration has exhibited a pattern of delay and deny with respect to the natural disaster response program, almost since it's been in office, while extreme weather events continue to worsen. While good documentation is required in order to get aid where it's needed, the mounting disasters demonstrate that there are clear cut cases where provisional declarations are justified. [...]"
MSM: "Book
Details Dissension in Obama Economic Team"[09/19/11]
"A new book claims that President Obama’s response to the economic
crisis was hampered by a White House economic staff plagued by internal
rivalries, a domineering chief adviser and a Treasury secretary who dragged
his feet on enforcing decisions with which he disagreed. The book, by Ron
Suskind, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, quotes White House documents
that say Mr. Obama’s decisions were routinely “re-litigated” by the
chairman of the National Economic Council, Lawrence H. Summers. Some
decisions, including one to overhaul the debt-ridden Citibank, were carried
out sluggishly or not at all by a resistant Treasury secretary, Timothy F.
Geithner, according to the book. Mr. Suskind quotes from two memos for the
president in which Pete Rouse, a senior White House aide, wrote, “There is
deep dissatisfaction within the economic team with what is perceived as
Larry’s imperious and heavy-handed direction of the economic policy
process.” A copy of the book, “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington,
and the Education of a President,” published by HarperCollins, was obtained
by The New York Times before it officially goes on sale on Tuesday. The White
House declined to comment on Mr. Suskind’s account, which he said was based
on interviews with more than 200 people, including the president.
[...]"
MSM: "Wayne
Madsen Bombshell On Obama Fraudulent SS Number"[09/17/11]
[14:06] Part 2 [13:05]
"In this Thursday, Sept. 15 edition of Infowars Nightly News, Alex speaks with investigative journalist Wayne Madsen, of the Wayne Madsen Report, back from Indonesia and hot on the trail of Barack Obama's birth certificate and the related issues.
He examines the apparently fraudulent social security number that has been linked with the President and brought under heavy scrutiny. Further, Madsen discusses the lingering impact of radiation now many months after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and explosion. Populations are in exodus from Tokyo and other major cities, as those who can are moving to Southern Japan to avoid deadly health effects. [...]"
Commentary: "Solargate: Obama’s Big Green Scandal That Won’t Go Away"[09/17/11]
"In the first year of his presidency, George W. Bush was under siege. At that time, he had appeared to win his war in Afghanistan, only to find himself tangled in another story, a tale of corporate greed and political corruption made by the hands of a company known as Enron.
Back then, it was the new energy brokerage houses and the new energy futures market that drove the hubris, and the greed of men like Ken Lay. Today in 2011, Barrack Obama now finds himself in the midst of his own ‘Enron moment’, but this time it’s political
favoritism and a seemingly bottomless pit of green government stimulus handouts that has driven his green juggernaut into a ravine.
[...]"
Commentary: "Solyndra Not Sole Firm to Hit Rock Bottom Despite Stimulus Funding"[09/16/11]
"Solyndra, the solar panel company whose highly publicized failure and consequent investigation by federal authorities has flashed across headlines recently, isn't the only business to go belly up after benefiting from a piece of the $800 billion economic stimulus package passed in 2009.
At least four other companies have received stimulus funding only to later file for bankruptcy, and two of those were working on alternative energy.
Evergreen Solar Inc., indirectly received $5.3 million through a state grant to open a $450 million facility in 2007 that employed roughly 800 people. The company, once a rock star in the solar industry, filed for bankruptcy protection last month, saying it couldn't compete with Chinese rivals without reorganizing. The company intends to focus on building up its manufacturing facility in China. [...]" Related:"Bush
Admin Pushed Solyndra Loan Guarantee For Two Years
"
"It's often claimed that the Solyndra loan guarantee was "rushed through" by the Obama administration for political reasons. In fact, the Solyndra loan guarantee was a multi-year process that the Bush administration launched in 2007. [...]"
MSM: "Insiders Warned Of Energy-Firm Bankruptcy Before White House Loan"[09/15/11]
[0:00]
"On August 20, 2009, an Energy Department staffer examining a pending loan to a California clean energy start-up came to a startling conclusion: The company would run out of money by September 2011. The government would, in effect, be placing taxpayers on the hook for a business likely to
flounder. Only 15 days after the staffer’s warning, the Obama administration announced its commitment to lend Solyndra
Inc., a California manufacturer of rooftop solar panels, $535 million as part of the stimulus program to spark the nation’s sagging economy and put Americans back to work.
The Energy Department staffer’s prescient warning, unearthed as part of a House investigation into the government’s failed half-billion dollar investment in the fledgling firm, underscores a theme running through a batch of emails obtained by news organizations and described at the hearing: Again and again, the Obama administration pressed forth in support of Solyndra in the face of glaring warning signs sent up from even its own staffers.
The company’s spectacular failure has stirred more than pundits and politicians. Investigators from multiple agencies are examining the company’s books and questioning executives. A spokesman for the Treasury Department’s inspector general confirmed to iWatch News and ABC News on Wednesday that it had launched an investigation into the handling of the loan to Solyndra by the Federal Financing Bank, which manages taxpayer-backed loans.
Investigations already involve the FBI, which executed a search warrant at Solyndra’s headquarters and visited the homes of three executives and former executives last week, and the Energy Department’s inspector general. “We’re going to look at everything the FFB had to do with its role in this thing,” Rich Delmar, the spokesman for the Treasury Department's inspector general, told the iWatch News and ABC News.
[...]" Related: "Treasury Opens New Front In Investigation" |ProPublica:
"What’s Happening With That Solar Company Scandal? Here’s Our Guide on Solyndra"
Legal Case: "Another Judge Slams Health Care Reform, Striking 3 Key Clauses"[09/14/11]
"A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday became the third to rule that a provision of the new health care law that would require most Americans to buy insurance is unconstitutional. He said that provision can be severed from the law only alongside two other provisions - one of which prohibits insurers from denying coverage to children under 19 with pre-existing conditions. "The issue is whether Congress can invoke its commerce clause power to compel individuals to buy insurance as a condition of lawful citizenship or residency," U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner wrote. "The court concludes that it cannot. The power to regulate interstate commerce does not subsume the power to dictate a lifetime financial commitment to health insurance coverage." Conner, who was appointed to the Middle District of Pennsylvania by President George W. Bush, granted summary judgment to plaintiffs Barbara and Gregory Bachman, who own a bait-and-tackle shop in Etters, Pa. The so-called individual mandate provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is not set to take effect until 2014. Conner agreed that the provision could be severed to preserve the rest of the act, but pointed out that Congress specifically tied the individual mandate to two other provisions. One provision prohibits insurers from varying premiums based on factors such as health status, location and gender. The second prohibits insurers from denying coverage to children under 19 with pre-existing conditions. "Absent the individual mandate, or some other source of subsidy, enforcement of these guaranteed issue and community rating provisions will likely drive insurers from the market, threatening the stability of the health insurance market," the 51-page decision states. "Hence, as currently written, these provisions are sustainable only in conjunction with the individual mandate."
[...]"
World Politics :"Obama’s Soul Mate Down Under May Be Down and Out"[09/14/11]
"It’s as predictable as political leadership gets: When things go awry at home, escape overseas for a while, grip and grin with a foreign head of state and change the subject.
Barack Obama may have this tried-and-true strategy in mind as he plans to visit Australia, which is about as far as a U.S. president can get from the rancor in Washington. Yet as he meets with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in November, it will be hard not to wonder about the weak leadership imperiling not only their economies, but also the world at large.
The similarities between Gillard and Obama are striking. Both are trailblazers -- Australia’s first female leader, the U.S.’s first black one -- who pledged to change the tone in their capitals. Both are likable politicians who inspire visceral and often inexplicable dislike and face daunting levels of opposition from cynical foes out to derail their every effort. Both confront a news media that has swung from fawning to churlish.
Obama is struggling to get any legislation passed while the economy stalls and U.S. standing wanes. Gillard’s inability to get her policies passed risks squandering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to harness the benefits of a mining boom and prepare for when the resources run out.
So maddened are their opponents that they forget what they once stood for. Gillard can’t garner support for a refugee bill that lawmakers probably would have supported before June 2010, when she came to power. Opposition leader Tony Abbott now opposes an emissions-trading system his party championed a few years ago. [...]"
Commentary: "Judicial Watch Obtains Obamacare Records from Department of Health and Human Services"[09/09/11]
"Judicial Watch, the public interest organization that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it recently obtained 3,497 pages of documents from the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the Affordable Health Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Judicial Watch obtained the records as a result of a Freedom of Information Act FOIA) lawsuit filed on December 30, 2010 (Judicial Watch v. U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (No. 10-2328)).
The records include internal HHS email correspondence and strategic documents, as well as email communications with unions and companies applying for waivers. The records also include preliminary drafts and multiple versions of the health care plan along with comments from the Office of Management and Budget, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and other agencies with concerns and suggestions for revising the plan.
The majority of the communications related to the granting of waivers by the Secretary of HHS exempting companies and unions from the minimum annual cap on the amount payable to an individual in benefits. Such waivers enable companies and unions to keep their existing plans in place until January 1, 2014.
As of July 2011, 1,472 one-year waivers and 106 three-year waivers were granted, covering some 3.4 million enrollees, more than half of which belong to unions. Yet, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, union members account for only about 12% of the total workforce.
Judicial Watch previously obtained documents from HHS regarding closed-door health care meetings between union officials and Vice President Joe Biden, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and then-Obamacare Czar Nancy-Ann Min DeParle. The documents include a list of all of the labor union leaders who attended a meeting with President Obama, along with brief biographical information on each participant. The list includes: Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO; Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union; and Jim Hoffa, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, among other Big Labor leaders. The documents suggest that the key provisions of the Obamacare law were written solely to address the concerns of union interests. [...]"
Related:"Challenge To Obama Health Care Law Thrown Out By Fourth Circuit"
"Two challenges to President Barack Obama's health care reform law were thrown out by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, V.A, Bloomberg reports.
It is the second time a federal appellate court has ruled in favor of Obama's plan — though this ruling asserted that the claimants did not have proper jurisdiction.
The ruling affects to cases brought by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Liberty University to overturn the law.
A lower court had ruled that the controversial law's 'individual mandate' was unconstitutional, prompting the federal government to appeal the decision. [...]"
MSM: "Obama Administration to Drop Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000"[09/07/11]
"The Obama administration has decided to drop the number of U.S. troops in Iraq at the end of the year down to 3,000, marking a major downgrade in force strength, multiple sources familiar with the inner workings and decisions on U.S. troop movements in Iraq told Fox News.
Senior commanders are said to be livid at the decision, which has already been signed off by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. [...]"
Commentary: "Gun Running Scandal Threatens to Bring Down Obama"[09/05/11]
[14:19]
"Larry Pratt, director of Gun Owners of America, joins Alex Jones to talk about Operation Fast and Furious, the covert ATF effort to arm murderous Mexican drug cartels and blame it on the Second Amendment and legal gun dealers in the United States. So far, the scandal has brought down the boss of the
ATF, a U.S. attorney in Arizona, and threatens the Obama administration. [...]"
Related:"Multiple White House Officials Knew About Fast and Furious Arms Trafficking Operation"
"CBS News has obtained a series of emails that show the White House had more information on ATF’s controversial Fast and Furious operation than previously disclosed. But administration officials insists nobody at the White House knew specifically that ATF was allowing guns to “walk” into the hands of suspected gun traffickers for Mexican drug cartels.
ATF allegedly allowed more than two thousand assault rifles and other weapons to fall into the hands of suspects from late fall of 2009 through 2010.
The emails indicate three White House officials were briefed on gun trafficking efforts that included Fast and Furious. The officials are Kevin O’Reilly, then-director of North American Affairs, now assigned to the State Department; Dan Restrepo, senior Latin American advisory; and Greg Gatjanis, a national security official. [...]"
US
Politics: "Obama Orders Sweeping Sanctions and Regime Change in Syria, Without Congressional
Approval"[09/05/11]
"Obama has used the authority vested in him in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act to impose sweeping sanctions against a sovereign nation without Congressional approval.
On August 18th, 2011, Obama signed Executive Order 13582: Blocking Property of the Government of Syria and Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Syria, which authorizes the seizure of all Syrian-owned property and interests in property in the United States. It also bans exports of U.S. services to Syria, the import of petroleum from Syria, and any new investment in Syria or those who support them.
The following actions are now prohibited: [...]"
US
Politics: "Obama Lies 7 Times In Under 2 Minutes"[09/02/11]
Comment on page: "Most American politicians lie to get elected, lie to stay in office, lie about who will benefit from proposed legislation and who they really work for, lie about sexual indiscretions with staff, strangers at the next urinal, and fathering children with women they are not married to. They lie about the bag of cash in the freezer, the bank account for the mistress in the Bahamas, about their political rivals and anyone who threatens their parasitic pursuit of wealth and power. Obama is a typical lying American Politician. Promise everything but give nothing. Promise everything and give everything to the special interest elite. [...]"
Commentary: "Psychological Considerations for the Betrayal by Obama"[08/27/11]
"There seems serious pathology with Obama. Obama's campaign "act" is discordant with most of his behavior after the election. It reveals profound pathology. (Although, let's not forget at the same time to acknowledge the profound pathology of Obama apologists who refuse to grasp he has not been and is not an ally to the base that elected him.) Also, most likely with Obama, his choices are not inadvertently made out of incompetence or inexperience, but to a serious degree from wilfull intention. There have been so many non-empathetic choices from him at an unrelenting rate. He seems to function as a conservative, Republican president rather than a Democratic one, though both war/money legacy parties have become more and more corrupt, alike and anti-citizen. Obama's heavy protectiveness and generosity to the corporate, political, media ruling classes awe much of his base, despite the crazymaking accusations from the right of his "socialism" (with the media allowing that disinformation to ricochet through its vast echo chamber). [...]
"
Exposé:"White
House Insider: The Obama Plan – Part One"
[08/24/11]
"This interview is the first face to face sit down in months with our
longtime D.C. political operative we have come to simply call “Insider”.
They offer up a unique perspective and insight based upon their decades-long
experience as a D.C. insider working within the highest levels of government
– including helping to elect Barack Obama in 2008. Here now are the words of
Insider, unedited and published in their entirety per their request. This is
part one of the interview. [...] "Insider: (Interrupts)—I’m
trying to lay out the psychological foundation of the son- of- a-bitch. You
think people might want to know what this man is really like? How everything
around him – the whole fucking image…it’s a charade. It’s a lie. He
fooled me – he fooled a whole lot of us. And he is frightened every hour of
every day that the country will find out. But this realization, this little
part of Obama’s self-awareness, it’s getting beat down by the guy’s
absolute arrogance and when necessary, willingness to over-reach acceptable
executive authority. Yeah, it’s a lot more important than the fact he
dresses like a slob when the cameras aren’t on, or that he lies over and
over again just because it’s convenient and the media continues to let him
get away with it…it’s about how far he will go to keep the charade up,
right? How far, and who is he willing to throw under that bus? Who can be
sacrificed to keep up the lie that is Barack Obama? To keep the scandals down?
To keep people quiet? To keep himself as the tool for the ones really calling
the shots?" Related: "The
Obama Plan – Part Two"
| "The
Obama Plan – Part Three"
Commentary: "Obama In Meltdown; World Financial System Set To Blow"[08/13/11]
"As of today, the global strategic situation can be effectively summarized as follows. The entire world financial system has reached a break point, as of one week ago. At any moment, the entire system can explode. It could happen today, Monday, or any time in the immediate days and weeks ahead. A massive hyperinflationary intervention by the world's central banks could perhaps push back the date for a brief period of time, but nothing within the existing system can avert the inevitable for very much longer. The line has been crossed. Major banks on both sides of the Atlantic are hopelessly bankrupt, including the Inter-Alpha Group's Banco Santander and Societe
Generale, and Bank of America. The fact that a number of European governments, including France, Belgium and Spain, have imposed a ban on short-selling of financial stocks is at least a small indication that they sense the doom — but are still thoroughly unprepared to take the only viable action: a full bankruptcy reorganization of the system. As appropriate as action against speculators may be in a limited sense, the actions in themselves are doomed to fail, because President Obama is not about to defy Geithner and Wall Street and the City of London, and impose a ban on short-selling in the United States.
In the aftermath of the Wednesday diplomatic luncheon in Washington with Lyndon LaRouche, senior officials in one European financial ministry responded by admitting that the entire global system is in a meltdown—way beyond just the problems in the trans-Atlantic region—and that the speed at which the crash is coming is much greater than at the time of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
At the same time that the global financial system is in a terminal meltdown, the same is true for President Obama, who is in a state of shock, over the Wall Street turmoil and the mass revolt against him. [...]
This situation could, however, change very rapidly, driven by Obama's desperado state of mind. Obama is desperate and he is surrounded by idiots, particularly in his campaign apparatus. Remember Nixon. He was headed for a landslide victory over George McGovern, but went for an overkill and wound up being
Watergated. The bottom line: Obama is insane, and the real issue is the 25th Amendment. Obama should be removed from office because he is mentally unfit to be President. That is the truth, and we should be hammering away at that fact — especially because every time Obama opens his mouth, he proves our case.
Glass-Steagall remains the essential first step toward a real solution to this otherwise certain plunge into a civilizational dark age. We have enormous support and momentum on this issue. Dump Obama and pass Glass-Steagall, and the world situation is altered in the most profound way. It is in our grasp to accomplish this. As Lyndon LaRouche emphasized in discussions today, the big strategic story is us, internationally. [...]
"
Legal Case: "Health
Care Requirement Unconstitutional"[08/13/11]
[0:20]
"A federal appeals court panel on Friday struck down the requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul package that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance or face penalties. Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News) [...]"
Commentary: "DeMint: Obama Administration Most “Anti-American” In My Lifetime"[08/12/11]
[1:20]
"We saw within a few days that this President was going to be heavy-handed, he was going to implement his agenda and pay back his political allies, and it just went on from there to ObamaCare and then to Dodd-Frank. It has been the most anti-business and I consider anti-American administration in my lifetime. Things that are just so anathema to the principles of freedom, and everything he has come up with centralizes more power in Washington, creates more socialist-style, collectivist policies. This president is doing something that’s so far out of the realm of anything Republicans ever did wrong, it’s hard to even imagine,” Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) “Janet Meffered Show.” [...]"
Commentary: "Narcissists Look Like Good Leaders—But They Aren’t"[08/10/11]
"Narcissists rise to the top. That’s because other people think their qualities—confidence, dominance, authority, and self-esteem—make them good leaders.
Is that true? “Our research shows that the opposite seems to be true,” says Barbora Nevicka, a PhD candidate in organizational psychology, describing a new study she undertook with University of Amsterdam colleagues Femke Ten Velden, Annebel De Hoogh, and Annelies Van Vianen. The study found that the narcissists’ preoccupation with their own brilliance inhibits a crucial element of successful group decision-making and performance: the free and creative exchange of information and ideas. The findings will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. [...]
“Narcissists are very convincing. They do tend to be picked as leaders. There’s the danger: that people can be so wrong based on how others project themselves. You have to ask: Are the competencies they project valid, or are they merely in the eyes of the beholder?”"
LaRouche: "Treason in America: Barack Obama"[08/10/11]
"A fascist coup is under way. The same forces that sought to overthrow the Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930's, is the same behind President Barack Obama. Unlike Roosevelt, the enemy is safeguarded by Obama. Civilization's survival depends upon the overhaul of Obama's coup now. [...]"
Commentary:"Obama's Coup Follows Path of Hitler's Enabling Law"[08/06/11]
" On August 1st, under the influence of a terror campaign by Obama and his British and Wall Street backers, a majority of the US House of Representative signed off on a Hitler coup against the U.S. Constitution. Under this coup, the Congress will, as a first step, no longer have the power to decide on matters of spending—a specific violation of Section 1 of the nation's governing document. And that's just the beginning.
The specific measure which will eliminate the power of the Legislative Branch, is called by Obama the "Super-Congress." The SuperCongress will be composed of a 12-person board drawn from the Senate and the House, evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. This board's immediate mandate would be to decide upon $1.5 trillion in budget cuts, both from entitlements (Social Security and Medicare) and defense. The proposals are required to be submitted by Nov. 23 of this year—and to be submitted to an up or down vote, with no filibuster allowed, within the month.
" The Obama SuperCongress measure directly mirrors the Hitler Enabling Law (Ermaechtigungsgesetz) of March 1933, by which the German Reichstag "democratically" voted to give Hitler emergency powers by passing the "Law for Removing the Distress of People and Reich," which gave Hitler the right to govern on his own, and in contravention to the Constitution, without consulting the parliament for a period of four years.
How was it done? The parliamentarians "made a deal."
Specifically, the crucial agreement with Hitler was concluded with the Centre Party, headed by a Catholic priest named Ludwig Kaas. Kaas agreed to deliver votes for Hitler in exchange for assurances of protections for religious liberties and the continued existence of the Centre Party. Hitler acceded, promising to memorialize the guarantees in writing. The letter of guarantee wasn't forthcoming, but Kaas fulfilled his part of the bargain, on the promise that the letter was being drafted. Not surprisingly, it never came.
At that point, the vote was assured. Only 84 Social Democrats (their ranks diminished by arrests) opposed the Enabling Act. The Centre Party and the National People's Party decided to take Hitler at his word, permitting him to act on behalf of the parliament, including passing laws which deviated from the Constitution "as long as they do not affect the institutions of the Reichstag and Reichsrat," and maintained the rights of the President.
The guarantees, as any sane person could see, were a farce. Within three months of the passage of the Enabling Act, all political parties but the Nazis had been banned. Hitler did not rule alongside the parliament, but effectively superseded it. It only met 12 times over the next 12 years—including the two sessions when it renewed the Enabling Act.
Only a cowardly idiot would not see the handwriting on the wall with Obama's Hitler coup today.
Related:"Ron Paul and Judge Napolitano: Super Congress is Unconstitutional"
Fox - Cavuto on Business
[6:42] "Ron Paul and Judge Napolitano talk about super congress and how it gives all other members of Congress a demotion. [...]"
MSM: "Issa: Obama Admin Intimidating Witnesses In ATF Gun Probe"[07/27/11]
"The Obama administration sought to intimidate witnesses into not
testifying to Congress on Tuesday about whether ATF knowingly allowed weapons,
including assault rifles, to be “walked” into Mexico, the chairman of a
House committee investigating the program said in an interview Monday. House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, California
Republican, said at least two scheduled witnesses expected to be asked about a
controversial weapons investigation known as “Fast and Furious” received
warning letters from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
to limit their testimony. Mr. Issa's committee is set to hear testimony from
six current or former ATF employees, including agents and attaches assigned to
the bureau’s offices in Mexico, about the operation — in which, federal
agents say, they were told to stand down and watch as guns flowed from U.S.
dealers in Arizona to violent criminals and drug cartels in Mexico. The
six-term lawmaker aired his concerns about the program in a wide-ranging
interview with reporters and editors at The Washington Times on Monday. Among
other questions, the agents are likely to be asked about a large volume of
guns showing up in Mexico that were traced back to the Fast and Furious
program; whether ATF officials in that country expressed concerns about the
weapons to agency officials in the U.S., only to be brushed aside; and whether
ATF officials in Arizona denied ATF personnel in Mexico access to information
about the operation. Nearly 50 weapons linked to the Fast and Furious program
have been recovered to date in Mexico. Committee investigators said Mexican
authorities also were denied information about the operation. [...]"
Related:"ATF
Chief Says Justice Department Covering Up Gun Smuggling Scandal To Protect
Obama Officials"[07/21/11]
"The LA Times reports the Director of the ATF is blowing the whistle on a
Justice Department cover up of the U.S. government’s guns smuggling
operations. As I have previously reported, the U.S. government gun smuggling
scandal has grown to include at least two Mexico drug cartels and along with
sister operations that involved gun smuggling to Puerto Rico and Honduras with
some guns reaching as far as Columbia. [...]" |"U.S.
Taxes Bought ATF Guns for Cartels; AG Holder Lied"
"As the scandal surrounding the Obama administration’s operation to put
high-powered guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels continues to grow, new
revelations suggest that American taxpayers might have actually paid for the
weapons through the stimulus bill and multiple agencies. On top of that,
Attorney General Eric Holder apparently lied about his knowledge of the
scheme. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (still
known as ATF) is facing growing pressure after whistleblowers exposed “Project
Gunrunner” and “Operation Fast and Furious” to public and congressional
scrutiny. It turns out many of the guns shipped to Mexican crime syndicates
with ATF permission have ended up at crime scenes on both sides of the border.
And at least three of the weapons were involved in the slaying of U.S. federal
agents. But despite the Obama administration’s frantic efforts to cover up
and minimize the fiasco while demonizing guns, the furor continues to grow.
And more federal agencies are now coming under scrutiny for their roles in the
plot. Acting ATF boss Kenneth Melson (standing right in picture above),
recently threatened with contempt of Congress charges for obstructing the
investigation, revealed a startling new twist to investigators late last week.
At least some of the criminals supposedly being armed with ATF permission for
“investigations” were actually working for the FBI and the DEA —
unbeknownst to the ATF. Or so the story goes. [...]" |"DOJ
News Release: Obama Admin Approved ATF Mexico Weapons Smuggling"
Commentary: "Congress Planning Obama Impeachment After Bipartisan Debt Plan Rejected"[07/26/11]
"The U.S congress is planning to file Articles of Impeachment against President Obama after he rejected another bipartisan plan debt plan to prevent the U.S from a credit default.
Earlier today republicans warned President Obama that impeach proceedings would be brought against him if causes the nation to default on its debt.
Congressman Steve King, the Republic member of the House of Representative from Iowa, wrote on his twitter account Monday that President Barack Obama “would be impeached” if the nation falls into default.
Politico reported afterward on King’s threat and added that other members of congress are were also ready to bring impeachment charges against Obama over the debt talks. Rep. Tim Scott
(R-S.C.) warned earlier this month it would be “an impeachable offense” and Bruce Fein has already drafted articles of impeachment for House republicans to introduce.
As the August 2nd deadline of a default on U.S. draws near, the major rating agencies have already warned that a credit rating downgrade may now be inevitable due to the political bickering within members of congress and with the President.
After the warnings of impeachment hearings were given to President Obama he rejected yet another bipartisan debt plan earlier today
The rejection of the plan means that a U.S. default may now be unavoidable as leaders of both political parties have been pushed beyond the limits of concessions they are willing to make as part of a compromise.
The rejection of the plan has infuriated members of congress from both political parties who feel they are in a position were no further compromise can be made which has spurred talks of impeachment among circles in congress. [...]"
Commentary:"Cornel
West: Obama ‘An Extension Of The Corporate State’"[07/23/11]
[9:01] "It is absurd to call President Barack Obama a “socialist” when he is “very much an extension of the corporate state that has been squeezing out the juices of our democracy,” according to Princeton professor and famed black intellectual Cornel West.
West, who had been a supporter of Obama, called the president “another black mascot” of “Wall Street oligarchs” on an MSNBC panel in April. He stood by and clarified by those remarks Wednesday on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight.
“I supported by dear brother Barack Obama because I wanted to bring an end to the age of Reagan, greed running amok, indifference to poor people, and highly polarized body politic,” he said. “When he moves into office, who do we get? We get his economic team coming right out of Wall Street.”
West refused to say that he would vote for Obama again. Watch video, courtesy of MoxNews.com [...]"
MSM:"Obama Top Recipient of Murdoch’s News Corp. Donations"[07/22/11]
"Political donations by News Corp., its employees and their families were evenly split to Democrats and Republicans, with President Obama the all-time leading recipient, according to a report from the Sunlight Foundation.
News Corp. is the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Fox News, The Sun and The Sunday Times among others. The news company is currently under scrutiny in both the U.S.and in the UK over allegations its now-closed subsidiary News of the World hacked into voice mail accounts and bribed public officials.
"Obama being listed as the company's top recipient might surprise some people because of its highly publicized involvement with his political rivals, like Sarah Palin who was the vice presidential candidate in 2008 and reportedly still under contract with Murdoch-owned Fox News as a paid commentator," wrote Sunlight's Ryan Sibley. [...]"
Commentary: "Obama's Secret Wars: Shady Counter-Terrorism Policies More Dangerous Than Terrorism"[07/18/11]
"...But this "counterterrorism" program not only formalizes extrajudicial state killing formerly associated in the public mind only with the Gestapo and KGB. It also drastically weakens, not strengthens, U.S. national security. [...]
The mentality behind counterrorism has been described by former head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center in 2005-6, Robert Grenier as "kill them before they kill you" -- a primitive law of the jungle mentality more appropriate to organized crime than a superpower which confronts a 1.8 billion strong Muslim world in which, for each of "them" the U.S. kills it creates exponentially more of "them" committed to killing "us."
This strategy is thus not only immoral and illegal, but poses a clear and present danger to U.S. national security. [...]"
World Politics:"Obama Invites Dalai Lama For Saturday White House Visit"[07/16/11]
"Obama has invited the Dalai Lama to the White House Saturday, making time for the Tibetan spiritual leader who is in Washington for an 11-day Buddhist ritual.
The president last met with the Nobel Peace laureate in February 2010, infuriating Chinese officials. China accuses the Dalai Lama of pushing for Tibetan independence.
Employing a low-key approach, the White House has set the meeting in the White House Map Room, not the Oval Office, which is reserved for visiting heads of state. The White House is keeping the meeting closed to the news media, as it did last year.
A White House official says Obama will urge that representatives of the Dalai Lama be allowed to engage with Chinese authorities and will call for the preservation of Tibetan culture. [...]" Related:"China Calls On Obama To Cancel Dalai Lama Meeting
"
"China has called on the U.S. to withdraw an invitation for the Dalai Lama to meet with President Barack Obama at the White House, saying it could hurt relations between the two countries.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement Saturday that China opposes any foreign official meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader and asked the U.S. to withdraw its invitation to avoid interfering in China's internal affairs.
Obama's planned meeting Saturday coincides with the Dalai Lama's visit to Washington for an 11-day Buddhist ritual expected to draw upward of 10,000 followers a day.
Obama last met with the Dalai Lama in February 2010, infuriating Chinese officials, who accuse the Nobel Peace Prize laureate of seeking Tibet's independence from China. [...]"
Buffoonery:"Obama Orders Gun Dealers to Report Multiple Rifle Sales"[07/13/11]
"The Obama administration is ordering gun dealers in southwestern border states to report the sale of multiple semiautomatic weapons to federal authorities,
"in a bid to stem the flow of weapons to Mexican drug gangs". [...]" Note: Obama is delusional. See what those same federal
authorities are themselves doing:"Secret
FBI Weapon- Smuggling Cover-Up Deepens Probe, Helps Innocent Targets"[07/09/11]
"In an investigation revealing one of the most damning United States human rights violations in history, one ameliorating Targeted Individuals more daily, a high-level whistleblower's testimony has prompted the Senate Judiciary Committee to deepen its probe into the FBI and other Justice Department agencies allegedly allowing thousands of U.S. weapons to cross the Mexican border into hands of dangerous members of cartels including Zetas, all part of the U.S. drug- and gun-smuggling operation costing over 35,000 lives.
Targeted Individuals with no criminal background have consistently reported to the Examiner that the Justice Department stands down when targets present evidence of weapon attacks, repeatedly attempts to silence complainers of those assaults, and repeatedly fails to investigate evidence of targets' injuries or suspected perpetrators. [...]"
Related: "US Government Openly Admits Arming Mexican Drug Gangs With 30,000 Firearms"[07/08/11]
"It is now a widely-reported fact that under the Obama administration, U.S. federal agents actively placed over 30,000 fully-functional weapons into the hands of Mexican drug gangs, then halted all surveillance and tracking activities of where those weapons were going.
This is not a conspiracy theory, nor a piece of fiction. It is now an openly-admitted fact that this was pulled off by the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, more commonly called "ATF") under orders from Washington. The program was called "Fast and Furious." [...]"
MSM: "Obama To Unveil Gun Control Reforms In Near Future"[07/08/11]
"Half a year after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), the Obama administration is set to release a series of reforms to the current gun law, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Thursday.
The reforms, which are being crafted by the Department of Justice, come after a series of meetings with relevant stakeholders in the Second Amendment debate. But in a nod to the difficulties of getting legislation through a Republican-run House of Representatives, only executive orders or administrative actions -- and not an actual bill -- are expected to be handed to Congress.
Administration officials were coy on the specifics, from the reforms the Department of Justice would recommend or when it would actually make those recommendations. [...]"
Commentary: "Obama’s Omission: Libya
NOT A State Sponsor Of Terrorism"[07/03/11]
"Obama continued to discuss U.S. military action in Libya on Wednesday, but his statements didn’t always reflect the facts.
When making his argument for getting the U.S. military involved, Obama claimed that it was
"in the interest of national security to get Moammar Gaddafi step down from power, “As a consequence, a guy who was a state sponsor of terrorist operations against the United States of America is pinned down, and the noose is tightening around him.”
[...]"
Commentary: "Obama Intentionally Targeting Job-Creating Schools"[07/01/11]
"Over the last month, Barack Obama has toured a number of community colleges and job training facilities promoting what he believes is the next great job-creation and employment strategy: training young people graduating from high school and adult workers who have been laid off from their initial careers in the skilled trades. Experts estimate that nearly half a million skilled trade jobs remain unfilled because Americans simply lack the expertise necessary to fill these positions, and Obama is aiming to close the widening employment gap and give some semblance of normalcy to an increasingly irritated public by pushing programs that will get Americans back to work: training people to use the shovels for the shovel-ready jobs, if you will.
Of course, there’s a major flaw in his plan. While Obama is out promoting community colleges and job training programs, his administration is actively killing one of the most successful job training operations. Just last month, Obama’s Department of Education passed what is now called the “Gainful Employment rule,” a rule that severely limits the amount of federal financial aid students may receive to attend for-profit and career colleges – the very colleges that are training low-income, disadvantaged, minority and non-traditional students to enter or re-enter a dramatically changing workforce.
[...]"
"Obama's
'Team' Worried About His ' Reelection' Chances"[06/29/11]
"Obama is having difficulty recapturing the enthusiasm of his first campaign, which has Obama advisors "very worried" writes National Journal's Josh
Kraushaar. [...]" Note: Talk about a bunch of totally delusional and out-of-touch
people.
Commentary: "Obama White House Caught In Planned Massive Dirty Operations Against LaRouche"[06/22/11]
"Senior U.S. intelligence officials, along with leading figures within the Democratic Party, have warned that the Obama White House is in the process of launching a massive dirty operations campaign against Lyndon LaRouche and associates. These warnings come in the context of the accelerating unraveling of the Obama Presidency, driven by his clearly impeachable conduct in evading Congress' exclusive Constitutional authority to declare war in the current Libya case.
Senior U.S. intelligence officials pointedly warned that the Obama White House and campaign organization are in the process of conducting a major campaign against LaRouche and associates, and is pressing for support in this effort from leading political figures in the Democratic Party. Over the end of last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senator Barbara Boxer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi all came out publicly defending President Obama's flagrant violation of the U.S. Constitution Article I Section 8, and the War Powers Act, knowing full well that he had committed an impeachable offense.
Leading Democratic Party figures explained this bizarre behavior from the standpoint that the Democrats fear that the demise of President Obama will bring Lyndon LaRouche to the fore as the only serious political leader who dared speak the truth about Obama and his British controllers. So, in effect, Reid, Boxer and Pelosi fell on the sword, in defending the President's indefensible behavior on the Libya war, out of fear of LaRouche's emergence as a folk hero and a leader of a movement for a revolutionary change in U.S. policy—beginning with the passage of the Glass-Steagall restoration, now pending before the House in H.R. 1489. This act of near political suicide on the part of Reid, Boxer and Pelosi was one of the first public signals that the White House has launched illegal operations against the LaRouche organization.
This is deadly serious business. Both the intelligence community and Democratic Party sources conveyed their reports out of a deep sense of patriotism, and out of the recognition that if the Office of the Presidency is deployed to suppress LaRouche's voice at this critical juncture, the United States is doomed, and the rest of civilization goes down as well. [...]"
"Political
Anger, Discontent Grows After Obama’s Fundraising Visit to Puerto Rico"[06/21/11]
"President Barack Obama may have been in Puerto Rico for only four hours, but his brief fundraising visit has unleashed a growing political furor in this U.S. Caribbean territory.
Legislators of Puerto Rico’s pro-statehood ruling party say they are resentful that he swooped in to raise about $1 million and did not offer any help or solutions as the island battles a soaring crime rate and higher unemployment compared with any U.S. state.
[...]"
"Lawmakers mock Obama claim on Libya hostilities
"[06/18/11]
"Republicans and Democrats on Thursday derided President Barack Obama's claim that U.S. air attacks against Libya do not constitute hostilities and demanded that the commander in chief seek congressional approval for the 3-month-old military operation.
In an escalating constitutional fight, House Speaker John Boehner threatened to withhold money for the mission, pitting a Congress eager to exercise its power of the purse against a dug-in White House. The Ohio Republican signaled that the House could take action as early as next week.
"The accumulated consequence of all this delay, confusion and obfuscation has been a wholesale revolt in Congress against the administration's policy," said Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee who has backed Obama's actions against Libya.
The administration, in a report it reluctantly gave to Congress on Wednesday, said that because the United States is in a supporting role in the NATO-led mission, American forces are not facing the hostilities that would require the president to seek such congressional consent under the War Powers Resolution.
The 1973 law prohibits the military from being involved in actions for more than 60 days without congressional authorization, plus a 30-day extension. The 60-day deadline passed last month with the White House saying it is in compliance with the law. The 90-day mark is Sunday.
In the meantime, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has maintained his grip on power, and the White House says if the mission continues until September, it will cost $1.1 billion.
Instead of calming lawmakers, the White House report and its claims about no hostilities further inflamed the fierce balance-of-power fight. [...]"
"Kucinich,
Other House Members File Lawsuit Against Obama On Libya Military Mission"[06/16/11]
"Ten House members led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) are filing a complaint in federal court against President Obama for taking military action in Libya without first seeking congressional approval. Kucinich and Reps. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Howard Coble (R-N.C.), John Duncan (R-Tenn.), Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), John Conyers (D-Mich.) Ron Paul (R-Texas), Michael Capuano (D-Mass.), Tim Johnson (R-Ill.) and Dan Burton (R-Ind.) filed the complaint Wednesday at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. “With regard to the war in Libya, we believe that the law was violated,” Kucinich said in a statement. “We have asked the courts to move to protect the American people from the results of these illegal policies.” [...]"
"White
House To Cut Access To Half Of Federal Websites"[06/14/11]
"As part of the Obama administration’s campaign to promote transparency, the White House announced today it intends to eliminate the public’s access to half of the federal government’s websites within the next year.
The White House said there are nearly 2,000 websites operated by the federal government, which it said confuses people.
“With so many separate sites, Americans often do not know where to turn for information,” the office of Vice President Joseph Biden Jr. said in a statement. “The administration will immediately put a halt to the creation of new websites. The administration will also shut down or consolidate 25% of the 2,000 sites over the next few months and set a goal of cutting the number of separate, standalone sites in half over the next year.” [...]"
Note: Yeah, non-existent websites are technically transparent.
Commentary: "Obama’s
Endless Wars"[06/11/11]
"US military forces are now waging war simultaneously in five separate countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen. [...]
American workers, students and youth are increasingly forced to bear the burden of a policy of endless war aimed at forging a global empire to serve the interests of the US financial oligarchy. Election after election and poll after poll have demonstrated that a substantial majority of the population opposes these wars, yet this opposition finds no expression within the two-party political system or the corporate-controlled media.
Working people are well aware that trillions of dollars are spent on these wars and the US military-industrial complex, even as federal, state and local governments, led by Democrats and Republicans alike, declare that no money can be found to pay for jobs, decent wages, health care, education or other vital social services.
Moreover, the attempt by the American ruling elite to use militarism to offset the decline in US capitalism’s global economic position generates increasingly dangerous international tensions and the threat of far bloodier wars to come.
Even as mass hostility to these wars grows, antiwar protest has faded almost entirely from the scene, smothered by a middle-class ex-left layer that supports Obama and has largely integrated itself into the Democratic Party.
A new movement against war can be built only on the basis of an irreconcilable break with the Democrats and the independent mobilization of the working class against the Obama administration and the capitalist profit system, the source of war and militarism."
"Healthcare
Overhaul Fight In Pivotal Atlanta Court"[06/09/11]
"The latest round in the fight over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was held Wednesday in the federal appeals court in Atlanta.
A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on whether to reverse a Florida judge's ruling that struck down the law. The judges seemed receptive to arguments from critics challenging the health reforms as unconstitutional during the three-hour hearing.
Some 26 states opposing the law and an alliance of small businesses argue that Congress didn't have the power to require virtually all Americans to maintain health insurance. The Justice Department says the legislative branch exercised its "quintessential" right.
A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Cincinnati heard arguments last week about whether the law's mandate to buy health insurance went beyond congressional authority, and a federal appeals court based in Richmond, Va. heard oral arguments May 10 in another legal challenge to the law.
Lawyers on both sides have said the cases ultimately will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. But the appeal court panel's decision in Atlanta is being closely watched and could help shape the debate.
There's considerable legal firepower on both sides of the argument. Former U.S. Solicitor Paul Clement represents the challenging states and current U.S. Solicitor Neal Katyal will speak for the government. [...]"
Related: "Judges
Sharply Challenge Healthcare Law"
"Skeptical questions from three federal judges in Atlanta suggest they may be ready to declare unconstitutional all or part of the healthcare law promoted by the Obama administration and passed last year by Congress. [...]"
MSM: "Carville:
2012 Could Be ‘Very Rough’ For Obama, Says Civil Unrest ‘Imminently
Possible’"[06/07/11]
"Carville said the consequences aren’t limited to politics alone. He warned of heightened risk of civil unrest with the bleak economic picture.
“You know, look — this is a humanitarian — you know, you’re smart enough to see this,” Carville said. “People, you know, if it continues, we’re going to start to see civil unrest in this country. I hate to say that, but I think it’s imminently possible.” [...]"
Commentary: "Obama Forbade Job-Creation from his First Day in Office"[06/02/11]
"Under present conditions after the implosion of the financial system, no new jobs or net
re-employment could be possible without Federal credit. But a high-placed insider has now spilled the beans that Obama forbade that beginning on his
Inauguration Day, if not earlier. [...]"
Commentary:"Number
Of Government-Owned Limos Has Soared Under Obama"[06/01/11]
"Limousines, the very symbol of wealth and excess, are usually the domain of corporate executives and the rich. But the number of limos owned by Uncle Sam increased by 73 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration, according to an analysis of records by iWatch News.
Most of the increase was recorded in Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Obama administration officials said most of the increase reflects an enhanced effort to protect diplomats and other government officials in a dangerous world. But a watchdog group says the abundance of limos sends the wrong message in the midst of a budget crisis. The increase in limos comes to light on the heels of an executive order from President Obama last week that charges agencies to increase the fuel efficiency of their fleets.
According to General Services Administration data , the number of limousines in the federal fleet increased from 238 in fiscal 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, to 412 in 2010. Much of the 73 percent increase—111 of the 174 additional limos—took place in fiscal 2009, more than eight months of which corresponded with Obama’s first year in office. However, some of those purchases could reflect requests made by the Bush administration during an appropriations process that would have begun in the spring of 2008. [...]"
Concepts and
Practices: "Obama
'Signs' Patriot Act Extension in France Using Machine To Impersonate His Signature"[05/27/11]
"President Obama, or rather a machine impersonating his signature, signed the controversial Patriot Act only minutes before the midnight deadline, extending anti-terrorism measures enacted in the wake of 9/11.
Obama did not sign the act personally as he was 3,725 miles and six time zones away in France at a meeting of G8 world leaders, so a presidential autopen was used instead.
The White House said the President had approved use of the autopen, a machine which holds a pen and signs his actual signature. Obama was awoken at 5:45am in his hotel room in
Deauville, France, so that he could review and approve the bill and authorise his signature, with only minutes to go before the deadline passed in the U.S.
The President said he was pleased the Patriot Act had been extended and applauded the use of the autopen, saying: 'It's an important tool for us to continue dealing with an ongoing terrorist threat.'
Congress yesterday passed a four-year extension, granting powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps
i"n pursuit of terrorists". Congress yesterday passed a four-year extension, granting powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists.
Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempts to temper the law enforcement powers to ensure that individual liberties are not abused.
The Senate voted 72-23 and following the 250-153 evening vote in the House, the legislation to renew three terrorism-fighting authorities headed for the President's signature with only hours to go before the provisions expired at midnight.
As well wiretaps, and searches of business records, the Patriot Act also approves surveillance of non-American 'lone wolf' suspects without confirmed ties to terrorist groups.[...]"
Note: Geeze, EVERYTHING about this guy is a facsimile ... I
would contend that since this guy is invalid, doubly so is his mechanically
impersonated signature, making everything he does, says or signs, logically
invalid and unlawful. Since everything Congress does that violates their oath
is also null and void ... layer after layer of pretension is all they can
really produce for people to believe ... when they stop believing, we'll see
what happens.
Buffoonery: "Obamas Hit By Dueling Royal 'Blunders'"[05/26/11]
"Obama just can’t catch a break in London. After screwing up the date in the Westminster Abbey guest book yesterday, Politico reports that he miscued while toasting Queen Elizabeth at last night’s Buckingham Palace state dinner. The orchestra, apparently believing he was finished with his remarks, started playing “God Save the Queen”—right in the middle of Obama’s toast. He kept speaking, right over the British national anthem, and the AP reports that he later joked to the deputy prime minister that the orchestra had simply provided a soundtrack to his words.
Michelle Obama had her own minor slip-up: When the Obamas met with the queen earlier in the day, the first lady was sans hat. While hats aren’t required for meetings with the queen, wearing one can be seen as a sign of respect, CBS News reports. And of course in 2009, Michelle actually
touched the queen [...]"
Note: (sharp intake of breath) touched the queen. Oh
...my ... dog ... Related:"Obama Signs Book At Westminster Abbey;
Dated 24 May 2008"
Interview:
"Norman Finkelstein: Obama and AIPAC"[05/24/11]
[10:22]
" Obama speaking at AIPAC 2011 called America's support of Israel "ironclad." In light of his recent statement that 1967 borders have to be a starting point for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations which angered many in Israel, does President Obama face losing the support of a powerful Israeli lobby in the US? Daniel Pollak of the Zionist Organization of America and political scientist Norman Finkelstein debate this and the possible path for peace in the Middle East. [...]"
"Former Security Adviser to George Bush Sr. Created Obama’s Israel Policy Months Ago"[05/24/11]
"...This was written two months ago, and it is almost exactly what President Obama proposed to Israel. The problem is, it won’t work. The Palestinians, and the Israelis will not share Jerusalem on another leaders terms.
The author of this outline is, Brent Snowcroft, a former national security adviser to US presidents George H. W. Bush and Gerald Ford, and president of The Scowcroft Group, an international advisory firm. [...]"
Interview:"Obama breaks War Powers Act"[05/22/11]
[6:26]
"Now that it's been 60 days since the US entered Libya, the War Powers Act mandates that President Obama officially declares war. For a president that campaigned on upholding the Constitution, why does no one seem to care that the President isn't only breaking his own promise, but breaking the law? Ivan Eland of the Independent Institute says Obama isn't the first president to break the law, but as the States continues to invest in unlawful wars, the age of the American Empire might come to a close as the financial well runs drier by the day. [...]"
Commentary:"Obama:
The Man Who Never Was"Servando Gonzalez
[05/22/11]
".... First, not only did Obama himself mentioned that he was born in Kenya, but also his Kenyan grandmother confirmed it. Moreover, during a speech in Denver, Colorado, in 2008, Michelle Obama referred to Kenya as Obama’s “home country.” Also, a 2008 NPR report described then senator Barack Obama as “Kenyan born” and a “son of Africa.” Furthermore, Obama has never publicly said that he was born in the U.S. Consequently, he would never be successfully impeached for lying about his country of origin.
Secondly, [...] So, while about two million people watched the first swearing-in, which was invalid because it violated the rules clearly established by the Constitution, the second one, which was supposed to be the real thing, was hidden from the American people following direct orders from the transparency man in the White House. Therefore, we have to take as legal proof the word of a politician — the alleged president — who, like all politicians, is a professional liar, and the word of the other nine people present, all of them employees of the alleged president and, therefore, whose word cannot be taken for granted because of an obvious conflict of interests.
Consequently, this man could never be impeached, because impeachment is a fundamental constitutional power belonging to Congress for removing presidents, judges, and other federal officers who commit “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Nevertheless, given the fact that Mr. Obama is not the legal president of the United States, he cannot be impeached. He can be, though, criminally charged and prosecuted. [...]
Now, is Obama the only one to blame for this dangerous travesty? Of course not. The true guilty parties are the Congress, the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice and the sycophantic mainstream press for having relinquished their obligations to uphold the Constitution and address the legitimacy of the man currently residing in the White House."
"Obama to Address
AIPAC May 22"[05/21/11]
"Obama will cap a week of intense focus on the Middle East with an address the annual meeting of pro-Israeli activists on Sunday morning, White House press secretary Jay Carney said.
Mr. Obama’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee comes after a meeting Tuesday with King Abdullah of Jordan, a major policy speech Thursday on the Middle East and North Africa, and a meeting Friday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The president’s AIPAC will “stress the importance of the U.S.-Israeli relationship,” Mr. Carney told reporters, but it will lack the substance expected in his address at the State Department on Thursday. [...]"
Commentary: "Kucinich: “Important to Critically Analyze What Obama Does, not What he Says"[05/20/11]
" ... Obama violated the Constitution by pursuing war against Libya without a Constitutionally-required authorization for the use of military force or declaration of war from Congress. His actions, and now his policy recitations, set the stage for more interventions, presumably in Syria and Iran. His recounting of the reasons for U.S. intervention in Libya is at odds with the facts. There was no clear evidence of an impending massacre in Libya. There was menacing rhetoric and a violent government put-down of an armed insurrection which may have been joined by some with legitimate non-violent aspirations. No one can justify the actions of any parties to this conflict. In any case, discretion requires leaders to move with the utmost care in developing military responses to rhetoric and similar care to intervention in a civil war.
“The UN mandate to protect civilians was exceeded almost immediately and used as a pretext for regime change. The U.S. and NATO are one in Libya. Our nation, through NATO, has taken sides in a civil war which is spreading more violence throughout Libya and putting more civilians' at risk. The Interim Council of the rebels moved quickly to a $100 million oil marketing agreement with Qatar, unmasking a potential reason for intervention: control over Libya's vast oil fields which can yield over $300 million in oil daily. The military intervention in a civil war against the backdrop of a struggle for oil casts a shadow of doubt upon lofty rhetoric about positive change, peace and stability. That the U.S. has not intervened militarily in Bahrain and Yemen demonstrates that violent intervention carries high risks and political resolution of conflict is desirable. We must be prepared to seek political resolution of conflicts through statecraft not through military force. [...]"
Commentary: "Obama’s Dark Shady Past Exposed?"
MP3 Audio [05/20/11]
"In a recent interview on Tru News (starting at 18:00) with a man only known as Al (to hide his identity for protection purposes) startling information on Barack Obama was brought fourth.
According to the interview the man known only as Al is a debt collector. During a recent skip tracing procedure on a Chicago debtor (a procedure carried out to verify data on the client; i.e. addresses, phone numbers, friends, social security numbers, etc.), Al came across a startling discovery when pulling the clients data. Michelle Obama pulled up (on the computer) as the debtors neighbor back in the 90′s.
Out of curiosity Al clicked on Michelle Obamas name (link) and this allegedly pulled up Barack Obama’s name Chicago home address of 5046 S. Greenwood Ave, strangely enough owned by Obama’s accountant (according to AL).
Also allegedly displayed in Barack Obama’s file was the allias name of Harrison J.
Bounel. Upon further investigation 6 different pin #’s in 6 years were assigned to the property — along with other evidence, Al believes that this type behavior signifies a multi layered real estate finance transaction. Obama’s
file allegedly showed trusts and a $1.2 million loan taken out from Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac.
If all the allegations are true — this suggests real estate fraud at minimum, and the possible fact that Obama’s house is a CIA safe house.
52 former addresses of Obama allegedly popped up as well. [...]"
"Documents Raise Questions about Supreme Court Justice Kagan’s Role in Obamacare Defense as Solicitor General"[05/18/11]
"Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents suggesting Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan helped coordinate the Obama administration’s legal defense of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) while she served as Solicitor General. Kagan has said she was not involved in Department of Justice (DOJ) preparations for legal challenges to Obamacare. Moreover, the Supreme Court justice did not recuse herself from the High Court decision in April 2011 not to “fast-track” for Supreme Court review Virginia’s lawsuit challenging Obamacare.
The following are highlights from the documents obtained by Judicial Watch pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed on February 24, 2011. (Judicial Watch’s lawsuit has been consolidated with a similar FOIA lawsuit that had been first filed against the DOJ by the Media Research Center. The lawsuits are now both before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The documents referenced in this release were first produced in the Media Research litigation.) [...]"
Commentary: "Webster Tarpley : The Elite Ultra Hitlerian Genocide Plan"[05/17/11]
[1:35]
"This is the trailer for the upcoming prisonplanet.tv exclusive interview with Dr. Webster Tarpley. In this interview, Dr. Tarpley reviews the writings of John P.
Holdren, the current Whitehouse science advisor. This interview conclusively exposes scientific elite's true agenda, world-wide genocide and the formation of a global government to rule.
[...]"
Commentary:"Jane
Mayer On The Obama War On Whistle-Blowers"[05/17/11]
"In a just released, lengthy New Yorker
article, Jane Mayer -- with the diligence and thoroughness she used to expose the Bush torture regime -- examines a topic I've written about many times here: the Obama administration's unprecedented war on whistleblowers generally, and its persecution of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake in particular (Drake exposed massive waste, excess and perhaps illegality in numerous NSA programs). Mayer's article is what I'd describe as the must-read magazine article of the month, and I encourage everyone to read it in its entirety,
... When Obama took office, in 2009, he championed the cause of government transparency, and spoke admiringly of whistle-blowers, whom he described as "often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government." But the Obama Administration has pursued leak prosecutions with a surprising relentlessness. Including the Drake case, it has been using the Espionage Act to press criminal charges in five alleged instances of national-security leaks -- more such prosecutions than have occurred in all previous Administrations combined. The Drake case is one of two that Obama’s Justice Department has carried over from the Bush years.
Gabriel Schoenfeld, a conservative political scientist at the Hudson Institute, who, in his book "Necessary Secrets" (2010), argues for more stringent protection of classified information, says, "Ironically, Obama has presided over the most draconian crackdown on leaks in our history -- even more so than Nixon." [...]"
Commentary: "Cameras Banned In White House Daily Briefings"[05/16/11]
"What is going on at the White House? First, Obama announces that he will no longer provide 'staged' news photos for reporters. Then, today it was announced that the White House will 'go dark,' that is, the press today was barred from live-casting the daily news briefings provided by Press Secretary Jay Carney.
Increasingly the White House is distancing itself from news reporters, withholding vital information from the press and the public, and essentially dictating to the media when and where they are allowed to video or take pictures of the President.
In what was supposed to be 'the most transparent Administration in history,' the Obama Administration has increasingly miffed reporters, leaving them totally in the dark concerning the decision-making process, with former Press Secretary Robert Gibbs declaring curtly, 'Some things should not be done in publc view,' meaning of course that this White House and this President have become perhaps the most closed and hidden Administration in history.
The new tactic of placing broad distance between the President and news gathering entities is cause for concern. Red flags are going off in the heads of liberty-oriented citizens who see danger in the growing reluctance of the Administration to provide the public critical information concerning its actions.
It has become common knowledge among observers of the Administration that much
goes on in the shadows, away from public knowledge, in what is known as 'the shadow government.' [...]"
US
Politics: "Obama Administration Seeks Power To Censor
"Unclassified Materials"[05/14/11]
"The government is seeking to limit the disclosure of unclassified information as well as classified information about the National Security Agency at the upcoming trial of former NSA official Thomas A. Drake, who is accused of unlawful retention of classified documents that were allegedly provided to a reporter.
Under the provisions (pdf) of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), as expected, prosecutors have asked the court to protect certain classified information from disclosure at trial by proposing substitutions, subject to court approval.
But in an unprecedented legal maneuver, they said that some unclassified information concerning NSA should also be kept off the record. Defense attorneys told the court that the move was outrageous.
“One month from trial, and one year after the Indictment issued in this case, the government has asserted, for the first time, an evidentiary privilege under the National Security Agency Act of 1959 that it claims authorizes the Court to redact, or insert substitutions for, relevant unclassified evidence that will be introduced during the upcoming criminal trial,” wrote public defenders James Wyda and Deborah L. Boardman on May 10 (pdf). “There is no authority for this unprecedented assertion in the context of a criminal trial.” [...]"
US
Politics: "New Congressional Legislation Gives President Unchecked War Power"[05/12/11]
"Tucked inside the National Defense Authorization Act, being marked up by the House Armed Services Committee this week, is a hugely important provision that hasn't been getting a lot of attention — a brand new authorization for a worldwide war.
This stealth provision was added to the bill by the committee's chairman, Rep. Buck McKeon
(R-Calif.), but has a bit of a history. It was first proposed by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey in 2008 after the Bush administration lost the Boumediene v. Bush case, in which the Supreme Court decided that federal courts would subject the administration's asserted law of war basis to hold Guantanamo detainees to searching review. An idea that may have originally been intended to bolster the Bush administration's basis for holding Guantanamo detainees is now being promoted as an authorization of a worldwide war — and could become the single biggest ceding of unchecked war authority to the executive branch in modern American history. [...]"
Commentary: "Senate Seeks to Create Caesar"[05/12/11]
" While all of America is distracted and focused on the death of Osama bin Laden, our President and his minions have been fast at work laying the groundwork for S. 679: Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011 to speed through the Senate and then make its way into the House and then to the President to sign. Yes, the other hand is quickly forming into a dictatorial fist that is about to smash our Constitution.
As you will recall, the beginning of the end of liberty in Rome commenced with Augustus Caesar who compromised the authority of the Senate through the force of arms and basically the Senate became a facade. America is poised with this proposed bill, to morph immediately from a Republic into an empire with the privileged eunuchs of the Senate as window dressing and a dictator – the first American Caesar – at the country’s helm.
And leading the progressive charge is Chuck Schumer (D-NY). No big surprise there. Schumer is an elitist Marxist and a first class progressive who hates America almost as much as he loves power. He introduced S. 679 on March 30th, 2011. He was joined by a gaggle of progressives from the left and the right. This is something I have been warning Americans about for a long time. If we are to survive as a nation, we must rid ourselves of ALL progressives or our nation is doomed and freedom will be swept into the dustbin of history. Schumer’s esteemed list of constitutional traitors is as follows: [...]"
Note: Some have felt that 'Obama' is a reincarnation from the
same higher self that had Julius Caesar as an incarnation. The similarity in
behavior is a little eerie.
"Obama
Floats Plan To Tax Cars By The Mile"[05/07/11]
"The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive.
The plan is a part of the administration's Transportation Opportunities Act, an undated draft of which was obtained this week by Transportation Weekly.
[...]"
Note: Of course, this will never happen. They're out of time.
"Ezekiel
Emanuel, Rahm's Brother, Walks Out Of A Press Conference At Which He Is
Accused Of "Reviving The Euthanasia Of Nazi Germany" With The Obama
Administration."[05/02/11]
[4:27]
"Anton Chaitkin, Editor of "Executive Intelligence Review," published by the controversial political activist group, the 'LaRouche Movement,' accuses Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel at this press conference of reviving various eugenics Nazi policies, such as influencing health insurance companies to deny coverage to the elderly, who the Nazis deemed as not "having lives worth living."
Dr. Emanuel, who reacts by abruptly leaving the gathering, citing an "important meeting," is a fellow of the Hastings Center for Bioethics and Public Policy, which advises the US Government. He is also the brother of President Obama's former Chief-of-Staff, the Mayor-elect of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. [...]"
Related:"Jewish
Eugenics Pre-Dates Hitler's Master Race"
"According to the Israeli daily newspaper quoted below, before the Nazi Third Reich in Germany plotted to create a Master Race from the European gene pool, Zionists had already established a racial purification program to create the perfect Jewish bloodline.
A shocking new study reveals how key figures in the pre-state Zionist establishment proposed castrating the mentally ill, sterilizing the poor and doing everything possible to ensure reproduction only among the `best of people.' [...]"
"Obama,
Congress Renew Push For Austerity Measures"[05/01/11]
"The Obama administration and leading Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress are preparing the next round of austerity measures directed at slashing public services, jobs and incomes for working people, to pay for the deepening crisis of American and world capitalism.
Congressional Republicans have demanded binding measures to cut spending, focused on entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, as the price of agreeing to raise the debt ceiling. Formal negotiations are to begin May 5, chaired by Vice President Joseph Biden, but informal talks are ongoing.
Several Senate Democrats announced this week that they were prepared to join the Republicans in demanding spending cuts as part of a bill to lift the debt ceiling. These include Kent Conrad of North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota. Given the narrow 53-47 Democratic majority in the Senate, the defection of any four Democrats would ensure defeat of the debt ceiling measure, since all the Republicans are expected to oppose it. [...]"
Commentary: "Obama Working “Under The Radar” To Sneak Attack Second Amendment"Paul Watson
[04/30/11]
"According to a little noticed quote in the Washington Post earlier this month which has attracted virtually no media attention, President Obama told gun control advocate Sarah Brady that his administration is working “under the radar” to sneak attack the second amendment rights of American citizens.
During a March 30 meeting between Jim and Sarah Brady and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, at which Obama “dropped in,” the president reportedly told Brady, “I just want you to know that we are working on it (gun control)….We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”
The quote appeared in an April 11 Washington Post story about Obama’s gun control czar Steve
Croley. “What is truly startling about this story is the way it has been totally ignored by the rest of the media,” writes Jeff Knox….”Even the folks at the Brady bunch are not spreading the news about the stunning reassurances from the president. There is nothing on their website discussing or even mentioning Obama’s chat with Jim and Sarah.”
The Obama administration has repeatedly invoked rhetoric about the flow of guns being smuggled from the U.S. into Mexico as a talking point with which to chill gun rights of American citizens.
Just months into his term in the Oval Office, Obama told Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the U.S. was to blame for much of Mexico’s drug violence because of firearms that were purchased in America.
[...]"
Commentary:"Obama's
Birth Certificate: Not The (Biggest) Issue"[04/29/11]
" ... The corporate-financier agenda transcends presidencies. From Reagan to Obama, US foreign and domestic policy has moved in a continuously linear direction toward increasing corporate-financial monopolies and eroding the role and sovereignty of the US Constitution and the people who are supposed to execute it. In 1991, "Neo-Conservative" war monger Paul Wolfowitz stated that the Middle East would be turned upside down and reordered in America's favor - ironically, this operation which has been piecemeal planned and executed year-by-year since then, is finally unfolding in its entirety under the supposedly "liberal" Obama administration. [...]"
"Layering: Obama's New Certification of Live Birth Raises More Questions Than It Answers"[04/29/11]
"Techdude delivers a final report that exceeds my wildest expectations. It is irrefutable, empirical evidence - Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. Why? Why a COLB (certificate of live birth) forgery? That is the question.
My deepest thanks and appreciation for Techdude's unwavering commitment to the truth despite the threats and harassment, the slashed tires and the dead animal on his porch.
Insofar as "techdude's" credentials, he is an active member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, American College of Forensic Examiners, The International Society of Forensic Computer Examiners, International Information Systems Forensics Association - the list goes on. He also a board certified as a forensic computer examiner, a certificated legal investigator, and a licensed private investigator. He has been performing computer based forensic investigations since 1993 (although back then it did not even have a formal name yet) and he has performed countless investigations since then.
Here is his analysis: [...]" Related: "Pamela Geller on Fox Business: Obama's Birth Certificate"[04/27/11][3:54] | Atlas
Shrugs
"Obama Birth Certificate Number Proves Forgery?"[04/29/11]
"Despite the establishment media declaring "case closed" on the birther issue, the release of what purports to be Barack Obama's long form birth certificate has only caused a firestorm of new suspicion amongst Americans, with the document only serving to confirm unexplained anomalies, such as why Obama's birth certificate number is higher than that of people born after him at the same hospital. [...]"
Wayne Madsen:
"Orly
Taitz Is Working For Benjamin Netayahu" July
2010 [04/25/11]
[4:58]
"RARE hard to find RT video claiming that Orly Taitz is actually employed by Benjamin Netayahu. There are claims she is a mossad agent but I know she is a Dual Israeli/American Citizen. The whole birther claim was started to discredit Obama as he was wanting to stop supporting Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. [...]"
Absurdities:"Obama:
'American People Will Feel That I Deserve A Second Term'"[04/16/11]
"Obama said Friday that he's convinced that voters will come to see him as the candidate best prepared to serve as president by next fall's elections.
The president said he thinks that he can make the case for a second term, though he acknowledged that the state of the economy could be his biggest hurdle to clear in winning reelection. [...]"
"Obama White House Wants Wayne Madsen Killed"[04/15/11]
"In yet another indication that America’s democratic experiment is a thing of the past, this editor has received word from a source in a foreign intelligence agency allied with the United States that there has been talk by some within the Obama White House that this editor is under threat. What particular stories have inflamed the White House are not known but the warning conveyed by the source, who has connections within the White House, was stark in its directness: “They want to kill you.”
It was perfectly clear that the phrase was not being used as a figure of speech. [...]
There is an interesting postscript to this story. Not once, during the eight years of the Bush administration, did I ever receive such a credible and direct threat. In fact, after WMR’s stories about marital friction between Bush and First Lady Laura Bush received national media attention, there was a communication from a close friend of Mrs. Bush that if I laid off her marital situation, I would be given a major scoop. Knowing that no one should ever cut a deal with the Bush family or their friends, I kindly declined the offer. But whereas the Bush White House was prepared to offer a carrot, the Obama administration appears to favor the stick or another lethal weapon of choice. [...]"
"Obama To Launch Bid For Re-Election – And Embark On Quest For Big-Money Donors"[04/04/11]
"Taking out insurance in case he is unable to generate the same grassroots enthusiasm among young voters and small political donors as he did in 2008, President Barack Obama is set to launch his re-election bid with a coast-to-coast tour of big money Democratic fundraisers.
The Obama campaign is expected to fire the starting gun of the presidential race this week – filing papers with the Federal Election Commission
(FEC) as early as today – and then hit the circuit for what is expected to be the most expensive election in history.
The White House is playing down the time Mr Obama will have to take off from his presidential duties to prepare for the showdown in November next year, saying it expects the campaign to be relatively subdued until spring 2012, but his campaign staff hope to stuff his war chest with money from rich supporters long before a Republican challenger is nominated.
In 2008, Mr Obama brought in almost $750m (£465m) from donors large and small, as his insurgent campaign bested first Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton and then Republican nominee John McCain on the promise of hope, change and a new kind of post-partisan politics. [...]"
Note: Barry is just delusional.
US Politics: "Obama Secretly Gets Anti-Secrecy Award"[04/01/11]
"Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.
The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool.
This time, Obama met quietly in the Oval Office with Gary Bass of OMB Watch, Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive, Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org, without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.
“Our understanding going into the meeting was that it would have a pool photographer and a print reporter, and it turned out to be a private meeting,” Bass told POLITICO. “He was so on point, so on target in the conversation with us, it is baffling why he would not want that message to be more broadly heard by reporters and the public interest community and the public generally.” [...]"
"General Electric: Obama's Halliburton?"[03/29/11]
"The hypocrisy permeating the policy decisions emanating from the Obama White House continues. General Electric will directly benefit from Obama’s decision to renege on a deal to provide Eastern Europe with missile defense systems (the obvious implications of which go well beyond the topic in this
blog). As reported in the Washington Examiner: “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 [...]"
"Obama
Administration Announces Creation of Conservation Youth Corps of America"[03/23/11]
"Just when you thought this radical administration was ready to cut back on their socialist agenda they surprise you with another shockingly radical initiative.
Team Obama announced this week the formation of their American Conservation Youth Corps [...]"
"Obama Nominee For Deputy Budget Director Crumbles Trying To Defend Budget Deception"[03/22/11]
[6:34]
"Higginbottom is a political appointee with no budget experience whatsoever, and she should not be confirmed under any circumstances. But Sessions fails to mention that Republicans don't have the guts to cut spending either, except for Rand Paul. [...]"
"Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio"[03/20/11]
"A molotov cocktail was launched in front of the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro late Friday in protest of the arrival of President Barack Obama, the O Globo newspaper in Rio reported. Military police reacted by firing rubber bullets into the gathering of 200 at around 18:30 local time. A CBN news reporter suffered a minor injury from the shots and traffic was blocked. [...]" Related: "Obama
Cancels Public Speech In Rio Square: Embassy"
"President Barack Obama has cancelled a public speech he was scheduled to deliver Sunday in a Rio square during his upcoming visit to Brazil, the US embassy in Brasilia said.
The speech in the historic plaza known as Cinelandia, in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, "is cancelled," an embassy spokeswoman told AFP.
Obama instead will deliver remarks at Rio's Municipal Theatre, the official said, without specifying whether it would be open to the public or exclusively for invited guests.
No explanation for the change of venue was given by the embassy. Brazilian authorities have laid out a heavy security presence for Obama's two-day visit to South America's largest nation, and police in Rio had closed numerous streets from midnight Thursday in preparation.
On Thursday, members of an advance US security team were seen inspecting the surroundings of Cinelandia, where anti-US banners could be seen hanging from a road-side fence.
Some social and union groups have declared Obama a "persona non grata" and called for a protest, accusing him of a "bellicose policy of occupation" in foreign countries, and of attacking people "in the name of the war on terror."
Due to depart for Brazil later Friday on the first leg of a Latin American tour, Obama is then scheduled to be in Chile on Sunday before a final stop in El Salvador.
The trip comes at a troubling time as a nuclear nightmare stalks Japan and Arab and Western nations consider military action against Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi, who is threatening to crush a rebel uprising.
[...]"
Pro-Publica:"Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own"Dafna Linzer
[03/08/11]
"President Obama yesterday formalized indefinite detention for dozens of men held at Guantanamo Bay and announced that the Pentagon would move ahead with military trials for a handful of other detainees.
In an executive order, which we first reported on in June 2009, the White House created a board to periodically review the dangerousness of prisoners being held without charge or trial. The order says the new process will allow detainees -- some in custody for nearly a decade -- to challenge the government's determination that they pose a threat if released.
While the order is new, most of the ideas it contains are not. This is the third time such a board has been created for nearly the same purpose. Two similar processes to review detainee cases were in place during the Bush administration. Like its predecessors, the Obama administration's review process will operate outside the courts and will be subject to no independent review. Also like the Bush White House, the Obama administration alone will choose all members of the review board and appoint a "personal representative" to advocate on behalf of the detainees.
The major difference is that the White House, sidestepping claims that detainees have a right to counsel, will allow them to hire private attorneys The order states that the government will not pay legal fees. While detainees will have access to some evidence against them, the government will choose what evidence to share. The process is meant to be more adversarial than it had been under the Bush administration. Detainees can submit their own evidence to the review board but will be permitted to call only those witnesses the government determines to be reasonable. It is unclear whether a detainee can dismiss his personal representative or how the lawyer and representative will work together. The order allows a detainee to make his case for release once every three years. [...]"
Commentary:"Obama
Declares State Governors Will Enforce Health Care Bill Whether They Like It Or
Not"[03/04/11]
"At a recent meeting with US state governors in Washington, DC, President Obama made clear his intent to force the individual states to comply with his unconstitutional health care overhaul. Twenty-six states have already filed federal lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the bill -- and some judges have already declared it to be null and void -- prior to the announcement.
Clearly overstepping his constitutional bounds, Obama chided states for even questioning the bill, despite the fact that it will likely plunge every one of them into irreparable bankruptcy. He also declared a refusal to allow states to "weaken" the bill in any way, even though two federal judges have already ruled it to be unconstitutional [...]"
"JW Sues Justice Department for Documents Detailing Justice Kagan’s Participation in Obamacare Discussions as Solicitor General"[03/03/11]
"Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain documents detailing Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s participation in discussions related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of March 23, 2010, also known as Obamacare, while she served as U.S. Solicitor General. The constitutionality of the “individual mandate” in President Obama’s health care reform may end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. [...]"
"White House Backs State Opt-Out Of Health Care Law"[03/03/11]
" Obama is backing a bill that would allow states to opt out of provisions of his health care law, including the individual mandate requiring people to purchase insurance coverage. [...]"
"Obama Authorized Laptop Searches of Border Travelers"[02/26/11]
[6:09]
"Journalists have been stopped at the US border when returning from trips abroad, being detained for hours, having their laptops, cameras, cell phones confiscated, all of the material copied. ACLU Attorney Catherine Crump argues that this is a violation of their rights. [...]"
"Lobbyists: White House Sends Meetings Off-Site To Hide Them"[02/25/11]
"Caught between their boss’s anti-lobbyist rhetoric and the reality of governing, President Barack Obama’s aides often steer meetings with lobbyists to a complex just off the White House grounds – and several of the lobbyists involved say they believe the choice of venue is no accident. It allows the Obama administration to keep these lobbyist meetings shielded from public view — and out of Secret Service logs collected on visitors to the White House and later released to the public." [...]"
Concepts and
Practices: "Administration Asks Judge To Tell The States That Healthcare Law Isn't Optional"[02/19/11]
"The Obama administration is asking a federal judge who struck down the healthcare reform law to clarify that states must still implement the overhaul as the appeals process plays out.
Some states are saying the Jan. 31 ruling relieves them from implementing the sweeping reform law because the federal judge in Florida found it to be unconstitutional. [...]"
Concepts and
Practices:"Obama Administration Okays Arizona Proposal To Cut 280,000 from State Medicaid Rolls"[02/19/11]
"Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius approved, in a February 15 letter to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Brewer's proposal to save $900 million by cutting 250,000 childless adults, and 30,000 parents of poor children (if the parents' annual incomes exceed $10,830), from the state's Medicaid plan during fiscal 2012. [...]"
Note: Disgusting attitude these sequentials have ...
"US Rep. Markey to Offer Amendment to Restore Proposed Cuts to Home Energy Assistance Program for Poor"[02/14/11]
"US Representative Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, will offer an amendment on the House floor to restore proposed cuts to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
(LIHEAP). “Cutting off funds for this program now means that millions of families could have their heating cut off,” said Markey. “These families would be forced to decide once again between heating and eating.” A draft of the House Republicans’ yearly spending bill proposed cutting $400 million from LIHEAP emergency funds that help low-income families meet home heating costs, according to Markey. More reductions could come now that Tea Party-backed Republicans have called for even deeper budget cuts. The White House is also expected to propose cutting the program back to 2008 levels, from $5 billion to about $2.6 billion, in their budget proposal set to be released Monday. “Targeting the poor is the wrong direction and I think President Obama is making a huge mistake in singling out the poor,” said Markey, who is circulating a letter among his colleagues urging that the program be fully funded next year. [...]"
Related:"White House To Cut Energy Assistance For The Poor"[02/10/11]
"President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget will cut several billion dollars from the government’s energy assistance fund for poor people, officials briefed on the subject told National Journal. [...]"
Note: Change you can believe in. Let them die.
"Obamacare Would Reduce Employment by 800,000 Workers"[02/12/11]
"Testifying today before the House Budget Committee, Congressional Budget Office
(CBO) Director Doug Elmendorf confirmed that Obamacare is expected to reduce the number of jobs in the labor market by an estimated 800,000. Here are excerpts from the exchange:
Chairman [Paul] Ryan: “[I]t’s been argued...that the new health care law will create jobs and increase labor force participation. But if I recall from your analysis, it was quite the opposite. Is that not the case?”
Director [Douglas] Elmendorf : “Yes.”... Rep. [John] Campbell: Thank you, Mr. Chairman..." [...]"
"Obama signature creates ‘continental perimeter’ – Move described as key step in advance of North American Union" [02/11/11]
"Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper quietly have taken a major step toward erasing the border between the two nations with a new “Beyond the Border” bilateral declaration.
In a ceremony designed to remain below the radar of national public opinion, Obama and Harper bypassed Congress to sign on the basis of their executive authority a declaration that put in place a new national security vision defined not by U.S. national borders, but by a continental view of a “North American perimeter.” [...]"
"Obama Advisor Delivered Presidential Threat To Pakistan Over Detained American, Say Officials"[02/11/11]
"Pakistani officials said President Obama's national security advisor summoned Pakistan's ambassador to the White House Monday evening to deliver a threat from the president: Release Raymond Davis, an American being held in Lahore for killing two Pakistanis, or face the consequences.
National Security Advisor Tom Donilon told Ambassador Husain Haqqani, according to two Pakistani officials involved in negotiations about Davis, that the U.S. will kick Haqqani out of the U.S., close U.S. consulates in Pakistan, and cancel an upcoming visit by Pakistan's president to Washington, if Davis, a U.S. embassy employee, is not released from custody by Friday.
The outlines of the threat were confirmed to ABC News by a senior U.S. official, who was not authorized to speak on the record. A White House spokesperson, Tommy
Vietor, declined comment. Ambassador Haqqani denied, via Twitter, that any "US official, including the NSA, has conveyed any personal threats 2 me or spoken of extreme measures."
Davis, 36, is expected in court early Friday morning in Lahore to face charges of shooting two men on motorcycle on Jan. 25. Davis says he killed the men because they had been following his car and were trying to rob him. Video emerged Thursday of Davis showing his State Department credentials to Pakistani police officers and saying, "I'm a consultant." [...]"
"Obama Health Law Foes Want Supreme Court Action"[02/10/11]
"A group of 28 Republican governors urged President Barack Obama Tuesday to support an expedited US Supreme Court ruling over the constitutionality of his signature health care overhaul.
The letter comes a week after a federal judge in Florida became the second to rule that the law's individual mandate was unconstitutional because it exceeds Congress's regulatory powers by requiring Americans to either purchase health insurance by 2014 or pay a fine.
Two other federal judges have struck down challenges by critics. The law, one of Obama's key domestic achievements, has been fiercely challenged across the United States since Congress passed it last year.
Legal experts believe the measure -- which extends coverage to some 32 million uninsured Americans -- will be debated all the way to the Supreme Court.
In their letter, the governors argued the case will eventually reach the high court anyway, so it should just happen now. [...]"
Commentary:"Washington Faces the Arab Revolts: Sacrificing Dictators to Save the State"[02/08/11]
"To understand the Obama regime’s policy toward Egypt, the Mubarak dictatorship and the popular uprising it is essential to locate it in an historical context. The essential point is that Washington, after several decades of being deeply embedded in the state structures of the Arab dictatorships, from Tunisia through Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, is attempting to re-orient its policies to incorporate and/or graft liberal-electoral politicians onto the existing power configurations.
While most commentators and journalists spill tons of ink about the “dilemmas” of US power , the novelty of the Egyptian events and Washington’s day to day policy pronouncements, there are ample historical precedents which are essential to understand the strategic direction of Obama’s policies. [...]"
"Obama critical of US intelligence agencies' failure to forecast Middle-East crisis"[02/05/11]
"Obama has reportedly criticized his country's intelligence agencies over their performance in predicting and analyzing the recent unrest in the Middle-East.
According to current and former American officials, Obama was specifically critical of the agencies for misjudging how quickly the unrest in Tunisia would lead to the downfall of the country's government, and how rapidly the unrest had spread to Egypt.
The intelligence assessments last month had concluded that despite demonstrations in Tunisia, President Zine
el-Abidine Ben Ali's security forces would defend his government. [...]
"The 1099 Repudiation"[02/05/11]
"Democrats now claim that the infamous 1099 business reporting mandate that the Senate repealed this week was an accident, as if they were as surprised as everyone else to learn that this destructive provision had crept by itself into law. The truth is that the 1099 rule emerged from the same core ideology as
ObamaCare, and its overwhelming repudiation by Democrats may be an important inflection point in the health-care debate.
The 1099 rule is the first of the ballast to go over the side, and Democrats hope that such "improvements" will be enough to ride out the public storm. Then again, they also claimed that voters would learn to love ObamaCare once it had been stuffed through Congress, among many other misjudgments. The political history is revealing and instructive. [...]"
Note: A revealing debate over one of Washington's dumbest ideas.
Exposé: "Obama Donor Brought U.S. Embassy To “State Of Dysfunction"[02/05/11]
"An Obama fundraiser awarded a cushy European ambassadorship after bundling more than half a million dollars for his presidential campaign ran her U.S. embassy like a hostile dictator, spent government funds on booze and bullied staff.
Here comes the good part. State Department leadership (that includes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) knew all about it but took no action, presumably because the wealthy donor—a Seattle philanthropist named Cynthia
Stroum—is untouchable. At least that’s what an internal State Department investigation seems to indicate.
Made public this week, a scathing report of the probe says that during her year-long tenure as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg Stroum brought the embassy “to a state of dysfunction” with her “confrontational management style” and an “absence of a sense of direction.” Things got so out of control that career staffers requested transfers to less than desirable locations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.
Stroum was seen by most employees as "aggressive, bullying, hostile and intimidating," according to investigators, who recommended that Uncle Sam deploy medical professionals to Luxembourg to treat high stress levels among embassy employees. Stroum also did unscrupulous things like spend $3,400 on alcohol, even though it’s against regulations. [...]"
"US Lawmakers Clash On Patriot Act Measures"[02/05/11]
"US lawmakers clashed Friday over how long to extend key provisions of a controversial surveillance law, designed to help authorities thwart terrorist plots, before they expire at month's end.
... Top Senate Republicans called Friday for the three powers to be made permanent -- a step rejected in the original law in favor of "sunsets" to ensure regular reviews by Congress to ferret out possible abuse.
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said doing so would give US intelligence and law enforcement officials "the highest degree of operational certainty that's practicable."
The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley, warned that stopping short of
permanently extending the measures would "tie the hands of our agents in the field."
"We must ensure our intelligence personnel have the means to apprehend those who seek to destroy our way of life," said the top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Saxy Chambliss.
US Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper urged top lawmakers in a January 28 letter to extend all three powers and complained of annual renewals. [...]"
Note: Stupid power and control freaks.
Related: "US
Congress Prepares to Secretly Renew the USA Patriot Act"[02/04/11]
[1:45]
"Ron Paul has a few words to say [...]" Three sections of the Patriot Act that stay in force (after a one year extension) will: * Authorize court-approved roving wiretaps that permit surveillance on multiple phones. * Allow court-approved seizure of records and property in anti-terrorism operations. * Permit surveillance against a so-called lone wolf, a non-U.S. citizen engaged in terrorism who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group.
Note: Anyone can be deemed 'a lone wolf' Related: Key Controversies of the USA Patriot Act
|"Judge Napolitano: Why The Patriot Act is Unconstitutional"[5:52]
"Federal Judge Declares Mandate Unconstitutional, Voids All of
ObamaCare"[01/31/11]
"U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson on Monday became the second federal judge to declare the national health care law’s individual mandate unconstitutional.
The decision concerns the lawsuit based in Florida and involving 26 states, and follows a similar decision last month in the suit based in Virginia.
But Vinson’s decision went a step further than the Virginia ruling by not only declaring that the mandate was unconstitutional, but striking down the rest of the law as a result.
As enacted, the law did not include what's known as a "severability clause," which specifies that if one part of the law is struck down, the rest of the law stands. Those challenging the law have argued that as a result, the whole law should be struck down, too. While U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson of Richmond declined to do so, Vinson argued that, “because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void." [...]"
Note: Here's the AP
story. Here's the New York
Times. Here's the Wall Street
Journal. Here's the 78 page
opinion.
MSM: "As Deficits, Debt Soar, Obama, Congress Fail To Confront Them"[01/28/11]
"New data Wednesday projected a record federal budget deficit this year and national debt soaring to levels rarely seen since the end of World War II.
Yet the day after President Barack Obama called in his State of the Union address for congressional cooperation to ease the government's financial crisis — while offering little guidance on how to proceed — lawmakers reiterated familiar partisan views, and few showed much will to tackle the tough solutions that experts say are crucial.
Centrist lawmakers and independent analysts lamented that Obama didn't go further and show leadership on how to tackle the deficit and debt. [...]"
Israeli Mossad 'News': "Pollard didn't harm US"[01/27/11]
"Jonathan Pollard did not do any damage to the United States by passing classified information to Israel, former US deputy attorney-general Philip B. Heymann wrote US President Barack Obama Wednesday [...]"
Note: An absolute lie. Maybe the Mossad has Heymann's
wife secreted away with a knife to her throat.
"GOP Invokes 1700s Nullification Doctrine In Health Care Fight"[01/27/11]
" Republican lawmakers in nearly a dozen states are reaching into the dusty annals of American history to fight President Obama's health care overhaul.
They are introducing measures that hinge on "nullification," Thomas Jefferson's late 18th-century doctrine that purported to give states the ultimate say in constitutional matters.
GOP lawmakers introduced such a measure Wednesday in the Idaho House, and Alabama, Kansas, Maine, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska, Texas and Wyoming are also talking about the idea. [...]
"House Republicans Already Investigating Obamacare Waiver System"[01/23/11]
[2:04]
"The Obama Administration has already handed out 111 Obamacare waivers to US companies... And, they're hiding this from the American public. It takes 6 clicks to find out this information on the Health Care website. Unfortunately, if you're a small business or don't have connections you can't get a waiver for your company. That's the new reality under the Obama-Pelosi regime. [...]"
"26 States Join Suit Against Obama Health Law"[01/20/11]
" Six more states joined a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama's health care overhaul on Tuesday, meaning more than half of the country is challenging the law.
The announcement was made as House members in Washington, led by Republicans, debated whether to repeal the law.
The six additional states, all with Republican attorneys general, joined Florida and 19 others in the legal action, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
"It sends a strong message that more than half of the states consider the health care law unconstitutional and are willing to fight it in court," she said in a statement.
The states claim the health care law is unconstitutional and violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. [...]"
Related:"US House votes to repeal health law"
Investigations: Wayne Madsen & RTR Expose Rahm Emanuel, Obama and the Chicago Political Syndicate [01/16/11]
[58:00]
"Who is Rahm Emanuel? How did he get into politics? The Emanuel family; just how powerful are they? What influence do they have on lobbying, and power politics? His workings with the Chicago Democratic Machine, how did he get started, is there a shady past he is trying to hide? Is Rahm being blackmailed because of his past with Obama on Chicago's North Side? The Blago trial; why was he and others never questioned about Obama, Valerie
Jarret, and Jesse Jackson Jr. What role did he play in the attempt to bring the Olympics to Chicago? What is the connection to key players in Chicago and Washington DC winding up dead? Are there secret video tapes waiting to surface? If he is Mayor, what will the city of Chicago look like? Could he become another Rudy Giuliani? In this exclusive Special Investigation the Reality Report goes deep and digs up the dirt that no Chicago media outlet would dare to report. This is a must see expose for anyone who has questions about Rahm Emanuel but just didn't know who to ask. [...]"
Commentary: "Half of All States Now Suing to Stop Obamacare"[01/13/11]
"If it is allowed to be implemented, Obamacare will eventually do deep and irreparable harm to our nation’s budget deficit. But while Obamacare is more of a long-term threat to fiscal health at the federal level, it is a clear and present danger to the states. Of the 34 million Americans who gain health insurance through Obamacare, over half (18 million) will receive it through Medicaid. [...]"
MSM:"Pattern of anti-government attacks emerges over single week"[01/11/11]
"A pattern of violence against the US government appears to have emerged over the last week, and another dead body connected to political inner-circles who turned up Monday has some on capitol hill trying their best not to speculate.
Authorities discovered Ashley Turton, former chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), dead in a burnt-out car Monday. Turton's husband was Dan
Turton, the White House liaison to the House of Representatives. She was employed as a lobbyist for Progress Energy at the time of her death.
And Turton is just the latest: a well-heeled former chief of staff to the president of Arizona's state senate was found dead of a gunshot wound in mid-December. Police were investigating it as a homicide.
Washington DC Fire and Metropolitan Police departments found Turton's BMW in a garage on the 800 block of A Street Southeast. [...]"
Related: "Body of Wife of Senior White House Official Found in Burning Car"
"The car fire that led to the sudden death of Ashley Turton was caused by the impact after a low-speed crash, according to the major crash investigation unit of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Turton, 37, was the former chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and wife of White House liaison to the House of Representatives Dan
Turton. She worked as a lobbyist for the Raleigh, N.C.-based utility giant Progress Energy. [...]"
"Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans"[01/10/11]
"President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.
It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.
That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies. [...]"
Commentary:More
On This Story
"Former Goldman Sachs Executive Gene Sperling Floated As Larry Summers Replacement"[01/08/11]
"Sperling worked in the Clinton administration, then for Goldman Sachs and currently serves as a senior aide to Tim Geithner at Treasury. With this we can assume the Roger Altman trial balloon crashed and burned.
Sperling is seen as having an edge over two other leading contenders, investment banker Roger Altman and Yale University President Richard Levin. [...]"
Analysis: "Real News Commentary on Obama Appointing William Daley to WH Chief of Staff"[01/07/11]
Video clip[9:51]
" Related:"Obama names
William Daley as White House chief of staff"[01/06/11]
"Mr Daley will replace the interim chief of staff Pete Rouse. Mr Rouse, who recommended Mr Daley for the position, will remain at the White House in a senior position as a counsellor to President Barack Obama.
Mr Daley, 62, who served as commerce secretary in the Bill Clinton administration, is the brother of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, a heavyweight in Democratic politics."
Note: Somehow, the precipitous collapse of integrity just leapt
forward a bit.
"Veto threatened for healthcare repeal"[01/07/11]
"Obama will veto an attempt by House Republicans to repeal the healthcare law if the repeal measure reaches his desk, the administration said.
[...]"
"Medicare isn't mandatory: Judge Calls ObamaCare's Bluff"[01/04/11]
The Obama administration insists Americans must accept Medicare, even if they don't want it, in order to receive Social Security payments for which their paychecks have been raided for their entire adult lives. On Nov. 24, D.C. federal district Judge Rosemary M. Collyer ordered government lawyers to produce documentation for their extravagant claims of authority by next week. "She is literally calling their bluff," Kent Masterson Brown, attorney for the plaintiffs, told The Washington Times. [...]"
"Explained: The ObamaCare Fraud"[01/02/11]
"There are a great many things wrong with Obamacare, but the biggest is perhaps one that neither party is paying any attention to: It is one huge entrapment scheme that will turn patients and providers into criminals.
The most blatant example of this is in the “doc fix” that Congress passed with major bipartisan support earlier this month, saving doctors from a nearly 23 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement that they would have otherwise faced this year. Congress has been passing this fix every year since 1997, but this time, in an effort to offset its $20 billion price tag, it has included a little twist to squeeze working families called “exchange recapture subsidy.” Under this provision, the government will go after low-wage families to return any excess subsidies they get under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
When the government hands out subsidies, it will use a household’s income in the previous year as the basis for guessing what the household is qualified to get in the current year. But if the household’s income grows midyear, the subsidy recapture provision will require it to repay anywhere from $600 to $3,500, compared to the $450 that the law originally called for. [...]"
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MSM: 
Note: Boy, talk about a delusional individual ... dumb as a
stone.
[3:17] 
"During his Google+ hangout Pres. Obama tells a woman that her husband shouldn't be unemployed from the growth he has seen in the economy. Obama said he finds it "interesting" because he is getting "the word" that someone in her husband's job field "should be able to find something right away."
Obama offered to do something if she would just send him her husband's resume.
The woman wants to know why Obama is extending visas for foreigners when there is tons of demand for American jobs by Americans.
"I don't know what your husband's speciality [is], but I can tell you that there is a huge demand around the country for engineers," Obama told the woman. [...]" 