Obama Has Finally Become Dick Cheney
The first Nobel Peace Prize winner with a kill list.
UPDATE - List Of Children Murdered By Drone Strikes At The Hands Of Obama
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By Conor Friedersdorf
The Atlantic
The Obama administration wants to jail James Risen, a reporter who exposed Bush-era wrongdoing, if he doesn't reveal one of his sources.
In Barack Obama's rise to national prominence, when he criticized the Bush Administration for its false claims about WMDs in Iraq, its torture of detainees, and its illegal program of spying on American citizens without warrants, he owed a particular debt of gratitude to a New York Timesnational security reporter. In a series of scoops as impressive as any amassed during the War on Terrorism, James Risen reported in 2004 that the CIA failed to tell President Bush about relatives of Iraqi scientists who swore that the country had abandoned its weapons program; the same year, he was first to reveal that the CIA was waterboarding detainees in Iraq; and in 2005, he broke the Pulitzer Prize winning story about the secret NSA spying program.
These scoops so embarrassed and angered the Bush Administration that some of its senior members wanted Risen to end up in jail. They never managed to make that happen. But President Obama might. He once found obvious value in Risen's investigative journalism. Its work that would've been impossible to produce without confidential sources and an ability to credibly promise that he'd never reveal their identities. But no matter. The Obama Administration is now demanding that Risen reveal his source for a 2006 scoop about CIA missteps in Iran. If he refuses to cooperate, which is his plan, he faces the possibility of jail time.
Somewhere, Dick Cheney is smiling.
From later in the story...
In 2006, Risen expanded on his newspaper reporting in a book entitled "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration." Its a chapter of that book that concerns us here:
In Chapter 9 of State of War, I reported on Operation Merlin, an intelligence operation in 2000 during the Clinton Administration that was intended to stall - but which may have actually helped - Iran in its efforts to develop a nuclear weapons program. The plan behind Merlin was to have a former Russian scientist provide Iranian officials with faulty nuclear blueprints. The CIA hoped that based on those flawed plans, Iran would build an inoperable nuclear weapon....
As reported in Chapter 9, Merlin was deeply flawed and mismanaged from the start. First, the flaws in the nuclear blueprints were so obvious that the Russian scientist noticed them within minutes of seeing the plans. When the scientist explained this to his CIA handlers, they inexplicably refused to call off the operation and simply told him that he should go ahead and deliver the plans to the Iranians.
Read the whole thing at the Atlantic...
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UPDATE - List Of Children Murdered By Drone Strikes At The Hands Of Obama
Jan 25, 2013 at 9:08 AM
Reader Comments (71)
Too freaking late. There stands just another American president waxing hellish in his betrayal of the American people.
Goddamn you Barack Obama, you lying piece of worthless warmongering fecal piles.
Seriously, this guy was the most promising prospect I've seen in my lifetime for a president I wouldn't end up hating. At this point I hate him about as much as any president we've ever had, and that's saying a lot. If I had any faith left in the American political system, this S.O.B. just lifted it up in order to extinguish it the more completely.
Out of the fake two party system the two candidates who get their turn to grab the brass ring have already been fully captured by at least the middle of the primaries. To get the money you have to dance the dance, both candidates receive money from the same entities in order to ensure control in the event of an upset. You get two pre approved "choices" just so people think you actually have a choice.
There were other candidates to choose from, but even the voters are captured. As you can see yet again the manipulations are great against Ron, he should probably go independent right after the primaries just to shake things up a bit...
The election process will NOT be the way to end this sorry era in American history. The power club of elites are the behind the string pulling on all these last few presidents we have had. Maybe it goes back further as some people suggest.
Obama was a pretty good talker. People were fooled. Now, this next election TWO new candidates, or maybe Obama and one Republican, will be paraded before the public. We get about a 2 year respite from all the presidential debate garbage. They have started already with the election of 2012. I do believe that people will once again decide to vote for the lesser of two evils. Please don't. Either refrain from voting or cast it to a 3rd party candidate. Either Dem or Repug will do the bidding of the elites. So don't buy into their bull crap election...
George III must be laughing in his grave.
A pox on all the recent ex presidents and the present incumbent. They collectively run the nation into ruin and killed millions worlwide in their never ending wars.
Manfred
This could not be said better. I'm at a total loss of who we can elect to bring us out of disaster.
Does anyone feel that this won't end in complete collapse.
Watch George Carlin's "The American Dream" with transcript.
http://shoqvalue.com/george-carlin-on-the-american-dream-with-transcript
This seems to give me a different appreciation than the video alone
Now I guess all of you will be depressed.
http://www.marketwatch.com/Community/groups/us-politics/topics/fdic-troubled-bank-list---
More fool you for believing a politicians election talk.
Where is Al Quaeda? Its in Washington DC !!!!!. When will this war mongering stop, when will the rest of the free world say enough killing to America?
When will the American people say enough spending on military and wars and start spending on the USA for the future of the children of this country. Why cant all the billions of war money be spent on education, hospitals, roads, bridges, care for the elderly, care for the disabled, assistance for the war veterans which served the country that has now taken their limbs, sight or minds.
Who the hell is the American government serving ???? Its sure as hell not the American people !!!!!!!
If you are just going to run your mouths year after year about America's problems and believe in AL-CIADA,911,Torture,The Fed and the lying controlled Media why don't you just shut the F--k up and enjoy it or go to Washington Square and stay there until change has come .Otherwise resistance is futile.
In retrospect (my pre-October 2008 eyes came complete with scales), it was baked into Wall Street's cake. They owned Obama (and McCain) then as they do now. All four executive office candidates voted enthusiastically for TARP. Okay, Palin didn't, but she told Couric the bailout would be good for, among other things, healthcare.
As for the day-to-day mechanics, Cornel West says Obama is most comfortable around rich white guys. Undoubtedly they stroke his fragile ego by telling him what a good job he's doing when the reality is he's the most horrific rapist the American middle class has ever seen.
So Wall Street owns, and has owned for some time, the Executive Branch as well as Congress. More puzzling is the Supreme Court. The lifetime appointments provided for by Article III of the constitution were supposed to forestall this kind of nonsense. I suppose the Founders knew those weren't a safeguard either, as they also provided for constitutional amendments.
Christopher Whalen has suggested that a 27th amendment either banning or severely curbing corporate contributions to political campaigns is needed to staunch the egregious abuses that we all see pouring forth over our republic every day. It's the only legal remedy I can see. Such an amendment would be a shiv to rampant corporatism where it counts.
That said, the 26th amendment passed when people actually got off their couches and pushed back against their government, and the Fourth Estate was more than a sedated lapdog. But: we saw the kind of American anger that can cow even Congress as recently as when TARP was voted down (at least initially). Now, if we could only harness it around some other flash point...
I don't see it happening, but Ron Paul is really the only loyal American among the whole group. So we either elect him, or we are doomed to become a Goosestepping war machine untill the whole damned World rises against us.
http://peacockbiz.typepad.com/tram/
[snip]
Although dozens of vendors have expressed interest in the Public Affairs Operations-Afghanistan endeavor—and though no contract award has been announced—the Arlington, Va. and Los Gatos, Cal.-based Strategic Social Holdings already is hiring specialists to carry out duties for a USFOR-A project in Kabul that mirrors the above-mentioned initiative.
The co-founder and CEO of Strategic Social is Matt Bigge, whom the corporate website describes as a former U.S. Army ranger and Harvard Business School graduate.
But don't feel too duped. As Gompers said, you get two pre approved choices. Which means you get no choice. And yes, there's a strong whiff of Michelle Bachman in the air, but she'll be just to acerbate the left-right tribal divide. You get eight years of the Tall Fraud, whether you need it or not.
But this site, these comments, we're getting to an open and undeniable loss of acceptance of the government. More and more the truth is told, and it gets harder for the Washington Banksters Looting Authority to pretend they're still legit.
Speaking of legit, I heard Obama describe Gadhafi has losing legitimacy. Funny, no? Gadhafi is a dictator. He has no legitimacy to lose. However, the US government, supposedly a representative body that derives its legitimacy by consent of the governed has. Obama has lost his legitimacy when he lied to people for their votes while always intending to deliver for Money. That makes him particularly odious, when so many pinned their hopes on such a con. Makes Cheney look honest.
DB I think most American politicians learn early in their career to lie about their intentions and camouflage their true agenda to get elected.
Regan probably had no idea if he was lying or not, he read the script and acted the role as was directed.
Bush had to let Cheney, the neo-cons, and Wall Street do most of his lying as his command of the english language was so poor nobody knew what the hell he was saying.
Obama however is one of the most articulate liars to ever occupy the Oval Office.
He ("turned out to be such a warmongering, freedom-hating, whistleblower-targeting bastard...what a fooking asshole we elected...loves wall street, bailouts, war, TSA goons, and all manner of despicable creatures...george bush 2.0...maybe even worse...") because that was the real agenda of Obama, his crew, supporters and the people pulling his strings from behind the curtain. From his first day on the campaign trail till now he has proved, when it comes to manipulating tens of millions of Americans with falsehoods, he is a giant among his peers.
Google: delay on renewables will cost U.S. trillions, over million jobs
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/google-delay-on-renewables-will-cost-us-trillions-over-million-jobs/7371
Note: Al Gore is an advisor to google with interests in the enrgy and green sector.
Google hires 12 lobby firms in wake of FTC probe
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/us-google-lobbyists-idUSTRE76056T20110701
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The 12 newly hired lobbying companies are Akin, Gump; Bingham; Capitol Legislative Strategies; Chesapeake Group; Crossroad Strategies; Gephardt Group; Holland & Knight; Normandy Group; Prime Policy; The First Group; The Madison Group; and The Raben Group.
"We have a strong story to tell about our business and we've sought out the best talent we can find to help tell it," the spokeswoman said.
Google, which has an office in Washington, previously hired six other lobbying firms: Crowell Strategies, Dutko Worldwide, Franklin Square Group, McBee Strategic Consulting, Podesta Group, and RB Murphy & Associates, according to government filings.....
......The firms will be working on the FTC investigation as well as on several other issues that Google is interested in, the spokeswoman said.
What makes you, Daily Bail and others, think that Ron Paul will be any different? Are you not just setting yourself up for disappointment once again? Even if Mr. Paul truly believes what he says, how will one man - even occupying the presidency - effectively check the corruption in congress, the world bankers, the corporate media, & on and on. Those powerful forces will not be defeated by one little old man in the white house. Even if possible, they would kill him before they would allow him to make any significant change.
The Bushes remind me of the Duras family from Star Trek.
Jim Garrison and Al Gore have been treated like Worf.
http://open.salon.com/blog/stuartbramhall/2011/04/13/the_ford_foundation_and_the_cia
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&biw=1003&bih=619&q=Dr+Stuart+Jeanne+Bramhall+obama&oq=Dr+Stuart+Jeanne+Bramhall+obama&aq=f&aqi=&aql=undefined&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2953l6890l0l7l7l0l6l6l0l172l172l0.1l1
The Greeks have been slandered. They've paid taxes with every purchase.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&biw=1003&bih=619&q=Greece+V.A.T.&btnG=Search&oq=Greece+V.A.T.&aq=f&aqi=&aql=undefined&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=8235l12235l0l13l13l0l3l0l0l266l1985l0.4.6l10
You would be better off writing letters to Santa and the tooth fairy. At least they can't be bought off.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/30/cantor-could-rake-in-windfall-if-debt-ceiling-isnt-raised/
I've been watching this story and will add these 2.
http://dailybail.com/home/senators-husbands-firm-cashes-in-on-crisis.html
http://stopforeclosurefraud.com/2011/06/29/while-fighting-to-block-sec-investigation-of-goldman-sachs-rep-darrell-issa-bought-goldman-sachs-bonds/
He is Change alright! What a crock of shit.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/fink_dimon_among_leading_candidates_7qKzYGZ5Nw0kPvsPGfZEZM#ixzz1QsnpgkTO
Classic MSM reporting. Despite the fact that Obama has gifted Wall Street TRILLIONS of dollars, each one of which comes off the backs (or from the kneecaps) of taxpayers, we learn the following from the article:
"President Obama may extend an olive branch to Wall Street in selecting his next Treasury secretary."
Olive branch? When was there a war? Oh, the writer must have meant two years ago when Obama stuck out his tongue and called Wall Street a bunch of "fat cats." Yeah, that Obama is a real tough guy when it comes to Wall Street.
Memo to John Crudele: go over to your co-worker Mark DeCambre's cubicle, run a shot glass off his eye, and kick him in the face 'til he wises up.
I became confused when I heard the word
"Service" used with these agencies:
Revenue 'Service'
Postal 'Service'
Telephone 'Service'
Cable TV 'Service'
Internet 'Service'
Electric 'Service'
Civil 'Service'
City, County, State, & Public 'Service'
Customer 'Service'
This is not what I thought 'Service' meant.
But today, I overheard two farmers talking, and one of them said
he had hired a bull to Service a few cows.
BAM!!! It all came into focus !
Now I understand how all those agencies are "Servicing" us. (The ole' red white and blue dick George Carlin speaks of)
You are now enlightened
How about Hope is Not a Strategy. It amazes me no one used that line.
How about we are talking about someone so far in over his head that he has to defer to the machine.
There seems to be a general sense of laziness I have never seen in a top executive of any kind. Could it be he really thought the job was simply to make an occasional speech?
Maybe it is a bit of all of these? He's generally lazy. He has achieved success so far based on his looks and speaking ability, never really having to produce any results. He had "hope" that telling the story slightly differently would change the outcome?
Or, maybe the machine is so much bigger than he could ever be. Did you ever wonder why those pictures all look so much alike? I bet Romney's pic would fit that mold easily as well.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/sol-sanders-follow-money-no-73-obama-energy-strategy-one-part-black-magic-two-parts-propagan
Barack Hussein Obama
A caesarian bomb husk
So akin a macabre Bush
So, a Bush-mania backer
I am a Bush cobra snake
It is good to expose all words and actions of our false politicians and follow the money trail. Then and only then are we able to get a glimpse of the one “thing” running all of this.
I’m with the idea for all to stop voting, drop out and live off the land. Our nation is run by a horrendous pack of liars, cheats and thieves.
When two rabid dogs are fighting, do not bet on either because a gamble under perfect conditions realises neither gain nor loss. Under perfect conditions like the true moral integrity of humans, that vacillating pile of what if’s and maybe’s. The duty of every human is to become one and those who are truly on their way have no desire nor need to be “elected”. Realise, for mere knowledge is insufficient, that when you are peaceful within, others’ troubles will not perturb you but should you be in turmoil within, all the peace in the universe will not afford you peace. Reality is one’s experience/empowerment whereas others’ experience is merely one’s knowledge. Witness and learn and your reality will expand otherwise should you react in the subconscious attempt at owning others’ or their situation, you will ingest others’ behavioural inconsistencies. When a human is identified with his name and/or deed, he will not be teachable, he has to start learning but should he not learn after being independent, he will be taught the same lesson over and over again until that lesson/error becomes an addiction.
Be your own master. Do not try to own/master others or be mastered by their behaviouiral inconsistencies. The minute a human desires to own, he had been already owned - by The Bookie no less. The duty of every principle, be it real or conceptual, is to replicate. Cruelty seeks to make others cruel and love seeks to elicit love within others. When there is real love and not mere “love”, oka Ownership Issues, you will not have the desire to own or control because Love is about giving and never expecting, expectations being Vested Interests, oka Fame, Fortune & Immortality. Reality is about absoluteness/permanency whereas Relativity/Humanity is about uncertainty/transience. Be Simple and Virtuous, simple as in being innocent & wise and not as in being stupid/under/too-little or dumb/over/too-much, Stupidity being Dumbness expressed and Dumbness being Stupidity suppressed, alteregos, the different faces of the same coin, like it, believe it, or not. Reality/Truth is about the Purity with Desire whereas Relativity/Untruth is about Desiring Purity, especially others’ purity.
Like the proverbial Rainbow Chase, only those lacking real choices, oka gamblers, believe that reality is about others, oka The Greener Grass. Believe it or not, it has always been YOU for if you haven’t realised your reality, what chance is there for realising others? If true, are humans stupid or are we merely dumb whilst remembering that Self is merely Others expressed whereas Others are merely Self suppressed … or should it be the other way around. Surely you can work that one out by now? Don’t’ believe, just witness and Reality will be yours, soon, if only because when the SS Untruth is sinking, only Self matters, not Others, Self being the one who never expects but is always giving - Love The Almighty. You really wanna remove the chimps, donkeys and gorillas always helming The Affairs of Men, attain peace and satisfaction first and soon, with others seeing your example/attainment, they will then have real choices, choices as alluded to by Shakespeare, “To be or not to be”. Why doesn’t a Muslim [real or otherwise] believe in Christians? Because he can see all the artificialities/insincerities a so-called Christian harbours - and vice-versa.
The goons running the “Administration” are mostly who and what they are because they have yet to see Love within Others other than seeing the love of wayward desires, an election promise being vote selling-buying. Yes, talk about the “natives” and “3rd-world” electioneering. The control-freaks have yet to be allowed the choice of swimming or sinking, their being no choice when there is only gambling. As Gandhi advised, “We must be the change we wished to see”. So, who will start the ball rolling. Yes, others come first, of course, how civil of you. Back to the complexities of life, Complexity being Simplity or else it will have little meaning. A Simplicity which Eludes, especially the Stupid and the Dumb, Stupidity being overly complex and dumbness being under complexed - or should it be the other way around. When your cup is always full, first ensure that it is not filled with junk, oka the complexity of being complex. Try emptying it first, oka be simple as in being innocent and wise. Do not be The Bookie’s Choice by not being able to really choose. When it comes to reality, being informed does not mean being knowledgable, it means being peaceful and satisfied, just like being wealthy doesn’t mean being Insecure, being wealthy means being Secure. Witness therefore those with money whose only duty is to accumulate money because of their insecurity. Be inncocent and wise and soon, only the innocent and wise will be representing your virtue, not the stupid and the dumb, oka control and abandonment. Simple isn’t it - not when complexitiy is around, of course, jest like the majority of text within this posting.
It was clear that Obama was a fraud at that point.
Really, does anyone actually expect either political party to offer a candidate that is not bought and paid for? Imho, America either votes independent or the nation's descent into corporate fascism will continue.
In a nutshell, here's the problem. we are now suffering under a two-party dictatorship. FORGET any notion that, "Well, if we can just get get the republicans back in, they'll fix everything." Or, "The Democrats will take care of Americans." That's the "American Dream" and "You have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin.
Don't believe me? All you need to do is look at the people presidents surround trhemselves with. They're ALL members of tghe CFR, Trilateral Comission, Buildaburgers, or they have worked for one foundation or another.
Professor Carroll Quigley wrote in one of his book, "No matter who is in the White House, they are always OURS."
If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Terrance Mckenna.
Sorry to disillustion you, but would you be happier with your illustions???
We've been even more screwed by the Vatican since the assassination of JFK. Everyone thought Reagan was a good president.......he was the bastard that opened back up ties with the vatican.
The vatican is the beast system and they have taken over our politics almost 100% and what they don't control.....they persecute any true political dissent.
We need men like Oliver Cromwell who declared the pope the Anti-christ and was able to bring the english army to bear down on murdering catholic kings and priests in the UK in the 1640's
You will never understand what is happening until you see the dark hand of the vatican behind the current traitorous actions of our politicians. And then you best pray to Almighty God to protect you in Jesus name.....because the vatican is coming after you.
http://www.rense.com/general84/brck.htm
All presidential candidates (governors and other politicians as well) are whetted and tested years ahead of their designated timeslots. Do not believe for a moment that the next herd of candidates did not go through the same whetting. Do some research on the names popping up - Huntsman makes for a very interesting read.
Sorry to say, but Ron Paul is the perennial nice guy thrown into the mix just for distraction. "They" need him to play his part in these staged events and Dr. Paul knows his script. It is too late for this country and voting has become a farce. Perhaps it always was that way.
Lastly, I do not think that Barry Barack Soetoro Hussein Obama is good looking and well spoken. I cannot watch this person knowing how dangerous he is and the orders he follows to destroy this and other countries. His speaking style is robotic and he is lost for words withouth the teleprompters. All this puppet and his minions do and say is on command from the puppetmasters - just like administrations before him.
There is no excuse, you're all dumber than dirt. It was not hard to see, I predicted Obama would continue the exact same course as set by Bush, which had accelration of all the nastiness in the script already, and I said he would end up making Bush look better at least, or at least less like the worst president ever. The whole campaign was empty of subtance and pure hype, watching it was an abomination.
Excerpt from the above link:
We sat there not knowing what to say. She was obviously very happy that the Communists were doing this and that it would somehow be a thumbing of their collective noses at America: they would give us a black president and he'd be a Communist to boot. She made it quite obvious that she thought that this was going to breathe new life into world Communism. From this and other conversations with her, she always asserted that Communism was far from dead.
She was full of little details about him that she was eager to relate. I thought that maybe she was trying to show off that this truly was a real person and not just hot air. She rattled off a complete litany. He was from Hawaii. He went to school in California. He lived in Chicago. He was soon to be elected to the legislature. "Have no doubt: he is one of us, a Soviet."
At one point, she related some sort of San Francisco connection, but I didn't understand what the point was and don't recall much about that. I was just left with the notion that she considered the city to be some sort of a center for their activity here.
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The San Francisco connection:
http://kenraggio.com/KRPN-Gorbachev-PresidiumtoPresidio.htm
Excerpt:
The CanadaFreePress.com also reported (11/25/06) that "In April of 1993, Mikhail S. Gorbachev became the first civilian tenant at the prestigious Presidio in San Francisco. In a dedication ceremony, the former Soviet President and his wife were given the keys to a Coast Guard officer’s house by a three-star American general, where they were to run the Gorbachev foundation. The mission of the Foundation was to conduct research on global political and environmental issues."
This article is a testimony to the above comments. For all intents and purposes, POTUS elections now are meaningless exercises. The ruling elite or oligarchs have either created, infiltrated or hijacked the viable opposition. With near total control of the media, there is little public outcry or resistance. Furthermore, my research has concluded that the overwhelming majority of alternative media websites (this is considered one) do a good job of pointing out the obvious. But this is insufficient to effect any substantive change. Why? Because although these outlets bring to light the truth, they lack any direction for resolving these problems. The rise of the police state keeps in check any attempt by alternative media (esp. in the U.S.) from suggesting change under the threat of criminal actions. In effect, the complete take-over of the USA is for practical purposes, completed. Any attempt to exercise any frontal attack upon the duplicitous Democrats-Republican cabal will now result in punitive measures, where before it was confined to mere ad hominem attacks and of ridicule. Of course, the appearance of expression will continue in the mainstream media as bogus attacks upon party candidates and policies by major media outlets will continue. However, in reality, it makes no difference who wins the debates or elections because the deck is a stacked one. A good discussion of Obama can be viewed by researching Webster Tarpley.
What remains to be seen is how the cabal will handle Ron Paul should Dr. Paul become a viable candidate. I would suggest that Dr. Paul's campaign staff keep him out of Manhattan hotels and off Twitter. And perhaps make sure that he flies in an airplane surrounded by Hollywood celebrities to insure a public investigation should something "happen" to his airplane. But all this will be handled without such strong measures by either the Electoral College or by electronic voting machines. The other thing Dr. Paul would be wise to do is to promise no more Harvard, Univ. of Chicago, Stanford Univ. (Hoover Institute) or Yale people in his cabinet or sphere of influence. Make that promise up front.