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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lOTc91lHbbQ" width="480"></iframe><br />Though he is going head-to-head against the establishment, his first season went to air seamlessly. His second season experienced some issues. There was a lot of heat particularly on one of the episodes called Police State, which exposed the onset on a militarised war consitions style police and martial law state controlling the people. Needless to say the establishment did not like it (perhaps it was too truthful?). Anyway, both seasons have since been re-aired, all except this episode, they will not play it. Watch it and find out why..</div>
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9-11 As Occult Trauma Brainwashing</h1>
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<strong><em>The Most Dangerous Book in the World:</em></strong><br />
9/11 as Mass Ritual, by S. K. Bain, <a href="http://www.trineday.com/paypal_store/product_pages/9781937584177-Most_Dangerous_Book/index.html" jquery17205720795269859166="9"><span style="color: #474134;">Trine Day, 2012, 354 pages</span></a> <a href="http://communitycurrency.org/node/354" jquery17205720795269859166="10" modo="false"><span style="color: #474134;">Book Review</span></a> (Abridged by henrymakow.com)<br />
<strong>Anyone with an innate desire to understand themselves and the world will find a veritable feast in S.K. Bain’s discoveries.</strong><br />
Mind-baffling outrageous crimes have a certain logic, language, and dark humor that repeats itself again and again.<br /><span id="more-24959"></span><br />If you aren’t familiar with Aleister Crowley, you will learn how his writings and philosophy have been embraced and disseminated widely by those who believe that a select few should rule over the masses; Bain spells out how the 9/11 events are an “Ode to Aleister Crowley.”<br />
Bain’s work is a virtual Rosetta Stone, a key to decoding the images and signals that constantly bombard us. Bain modestly acknowledges that he is simply compiling the insights of other writers, thinkers, and researchers who have penetrated the matter in depth. He <span class="IL_AD" iceid="11" id="IL_AD9"><u><span style="color: #009900;">quotes</span></u></span> sources like Michael Hoffman, who authored <em>Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare </em> (1989):<br />
“In occult crimes the objective is not linear, that is to say, is not solely bound to the achievement of the immediate effects of the attack on the victim, but may in fact be <em>part of a larger, symbolic ritual magnified by the power of the electronic media, for the purpose of the alchemical processing of the subconscious Group Mind of the masses…</em> it is the subconscious that is being addressed in occult ritual, in a process CIA behavioral scientist Dr. Ewan Cameron termed, ‘psychic driving.’”<br />
The intent of psychic driving is to break down the personality and alter behavior; under the CIA’s MK Ultra <span class="IL_AD" iceid="8" id="IL_AD6"><u><span style="color: #009900;">program</span></u></span> victims were also given drugs to facilitate this process. Psychic driving can be applied to individuals or on a large scale to an entire population.<br />
It is worth noting here that recreational as well as prescription drugs are becoming ever more prevalent in today’s world, and people are under constant assault from chemicals and pollution in their water, food, and air, as well as in various products, which hinder their cognitive abilities.<br />
Hoffman also warns that revealing the secrets of ritual murder to an “unprocessed, healthy and vigorous population… [would] have proved fatal to them (the perpetrators).<br />
<strong>“But to reveal these after-the-fact secrets in our modern time, to a people who have no memory, no will-power and no interest in their own fate… actually strengthens the enslavement of such a people.”</strong><br />
<strong style="padding-bottom: 2px;">BELIEVE 9-11 <span class="IL_AD" iceid="13" id="IL_AD11"><u><span style="color: #009900;">OFFICIAL</span></u></span> STORY, SUSPEND DISBELIEF</strong><br />
Voltaire wrote, “<em>Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”</em> As an illustration of this statement, it is now known that the vast majority of American soldiers who fought in Iraq believed that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the 9/11 attacks.<br />
Bain lays out the occult significance of many of the details of 9/11 in such a way that it becomes obvious that it was orchestrated to terrorize people, while the perpetrators of the event ended up laughing at those who fell for it.<br />
He shows how they have flaunted their power through their control over the media and the <span><span>o</span>fficial</span> narrative. At the same time, we have witnessed the subsequent assassinations, both literal and figurative, of those who have had the temerity to challenge the <span><span>o</span>fficial</span> story.<br />
The term “conspiracy theorist” was coined and promoted by the CIA to discredit the critics of the Warren Report’s lone nut theory, which was the <span><span>o</span>fficial</span> attempt to close the case on JFK’s assassination. The term was then revived in 2001 to be used against those who question the 9/11 narrative.<br />
Daniel Lerner, author of <em>Psychological Warfare Against Nazi Germany</em>, states, “Before you can make a man do as you say, you must make him believe what you say.”<br />
While verifying Bain’s research, I stumbled across the <em>Vigilant Citizen </em>website which proclaims: “Symbols Rule the World, Not Words Nor Laws.”<br />
Imagine for a moment that you lived in a different country, spoke a different language, and followed a different <span class="IL_AD" iceid="14" id="IL_AD12"><u><span style="color: #009900;">calendar</span></u></span>. Place and time shape our identity. The rhythms of our lives are significantly determined by the larger culture, and by how our activities intersect with society, social institutions, and networks of <span class="IL_AD" iceid="3" id="IL_AD1"><u><span style="color: #009900;">transportation</span></u></span>. Places and dates have great meaning in the cultural realm and are amplified by the electronic media, connecting the entire planet via the global news networks. 9/11 was not merely reported in London, Madrid, Bali and India; it was echoed in subsequent “terror attacks.”<br />
<strong>SPECULATION</strong><br />
The second half of Bain’s work follows the logic behind 9/11, as well as behind the “terror attacks” of 7/7, into a more speculative realm.<br />
On the <em>Vigilant Citizen</em> website I found a <span class="IL_AD" iceid="5" id="IL_AD3"><u><span style="color: #009900;">review</span></u></span> of <em>“The Cabin in the Woods: A Movie Celebrating the Elite’s Ritual Sacrifices,”</em> which provides a set of rules for understanding mega-rituals that closely reflects Bain’s insights about 9/11:<br />
“Most mega-rituals follow specific rules that are clearly spelled out in <span class="IL_AD" iceid="9" id="IL_AD7"><u><span style="color: #009900;">the movie</span></u></span>. These rules are made to give the rituals more potency while allowing the powers that be to avoid the negative effects of bad karma (<span class="IL_AD" iceid="4" id="IL_AD2"><u><span style="color: #009900;">according to</span></u></span> their weird interpretation of it).<br />
<strong>“1st Rule: Announcing What Will Happen Beforehand.”</strong><br />
As Bain says, in the case of 9/11 the writing was all over the wall. There were multiple public warnings, and a blitz of warnings from numerous intelligence agencies, not to mention all the private warnings to prominent people.<br />
<em>The Vigilant Citizen </em>article continues:<br />
“Mega-rituals are often preceded by ‘clues’ in mass media, warning or preparing the victims (and the world) for what’s coming. If after being warned, victims go on by their own free will, then the puppeteers are liberated from karmic responsibility.<br />
During <span><span>t</span>he movie</span>, one technician says:<br />
“They have to make the choice of their own free will. Otherwise, the system doesn’t work. It’s like The Harbinger…this creepy old fuck who is practically wearing a sign saying ‘You Will Die.’ Why do we put him there? The System. They have to choose to ignore him. They have to choose what happens in the cellar. Yeah, we rig the system as much as we need to but, in the end, if they don’t transgress, they can’t be punished…”<br />
[SEE ALSO Makow,<a href="http://www.henrymakow.com/devils_advocate.html" jquery17205720795269859166="11"><span style="color: #474134;"> Why the Illuminati Expose the Conspiracy</span></a><br />
and Aspen "<a href="http://www.henrymakow.com/why_do_the_illuminati_reveal_t.html" jquery17205720795269859166="12"><span style="color: #474134;">Why Do the Illuminati Reveal Themselves"?</span></a>]<br />
<strong>“2nd Rule: The Victims Must Seal Their Own Fate</strong><br />
“Although every aspect of their environment is tightly controlled and manipulated by the puppet masters, the victims are still made to choose their fate by their own free will.”<br />
Over half of Bain’s <em>The Most Dangerous Book </em>is devoted to the next mega-9/11 ritual, which he fears is scheduled to happen on 12/25/2012 in <span class="IL_AD" iceid="7" id="IL_AD5"><u><span style="color: #009900;">Phoenix</span></u></span>, Arizona.<br />
S. K. Bain writes ironically as he lays out the plot, the details, and the numerological references, symbols, and players in the upcoming drama, including the globally televised prelude at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London leading up to “Black Christmas.” Here is an excerpt from the foreword, which is written as if in hindsight:<br />
“If only we had been able to use the occult script from 9/11 to decode their plans sooner, in advance… maybe, just maybe, this might have allowed us to stop their next act of false flag terror. If only…” The nightmare scenario that he lays out, an “unimaginably horrific assault” upon the city of <span><span>P</span>hoenix</span> and other targets, becomes an immediate justification for martial law and a global religious war.<br />
The first casualty of war is truth. At the core of Sun Tzu’s <em>Art of War </em>is the acknowledgement, “All warfare is based on deception.”<br />
The truth about false flag operations, ritual murders, and other violent acts always threatens the criminals responsible for them but silence and consent serve to enhance the criminals’ aura of immunity and invincibility.<br />
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Note: S.K. Bain is the former art director of <em>The Weekly Standard</em> magazine, where he <span class="IL_AD" iceid="12" id="IL_AD10"><u><span style="color: #009900;">worked</span></u></span> with William Kristol, Fred Barnes, David Brooks, Tucker Carlson and others for over five years.<br />
<a href="http://www.henrymakow.com/9-11-as-occult-trauma-brainwashing.html" jquery17205720795269859166="13" modo="false"><span style="color: #474134;">http://www.henrymakow.com/9-11-as-occult-trauma-brainwashing.html</span></a></div>
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US Elections: From the “Lesser to the Greater Evil”. The Demise of Critical Liberalism</h2>
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<strong>Introduction</strong><br />
<em>There is ample evidence that the Obama Presidency has pulled the US political spectrum further to the Right. On most domestic and foreign policy issues Obama has embraced extremist positions surpassing his Republican predecessor and in the process devastating what remained of the peace and social movements of the past decade. Moreover, the Obama Presidency has laid the groundwork for the immediate future promising a further extension of regressive policies following the presidential elections: cuts in Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Incumbents and their opposition compete over hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign funding from wealthy donors, which they will have to repay in the post-election period in billion dollar handouts, subsidies, tax abatements, anti-labor and environmental policies. Not a single positive proposal was put forth by the Obama campaign but numerous militarist and regressive social policies were articulated. The Obama campaign ran a fear campaign, playing off of the reactionary proposals of the Romney-Tea Party alliance: a cover for his own record of unprecedented military spending, sequential wars, immigrant expulsions, mortgage foreclosures and Wall Street bailouts.</em><br />
In the process, critical liberals have crossed the line, surrendering their integrity by deflecting attention from Obama’s militarist-socially regressive policies to focus on “opposing Romney” as a “greater evil”: progressives and critical liberals have multiplied and magnified the duplicity of the Obama political apparatus. In the name of opposing the current ‘greater evil’ (Romney) they dare not enumerate and specify the wanton political crimes and monumental socio-economic in justice perpetrated by their “lesser evil” candidate (Obama). Will the “progressives” ever play honest and publicly state: we back Obama in “swing states” because he has “only” murdered 10,000 Afghans, 5,000 Iraqis, is starving 75 million Iranian’s via sanctions, gives $3 billion for Israeli displacement of millions of Palestinians, personally oversees the arbitrary executions of US citizens and promises an extended kill list … because Romney promises to be worse … Expecting honesty from the proponents of ‘lesser evils’ is as farfetched as taking serious their criticisms between elections.<br />
The political damage incurred by the social movements and US working class under the Obama presidency is unprecedented and has laid the groundwork for further social regression and greater imperial bellicosity.<br />
<strong>Political Consequences of the Obama Presidency: Past, Present and Future</strong><br />
The Obama Presidency and the run-up to his past and present electoral campaigns have had a devastating impact on popular social movements, engaged in issues of peace, labor, immigrant and constitutional rights and environmental regulation.<br />
The peace movement virtually disappeared as its leaders urged its supporters to turn their activities to supporting Obama’s election. He rewarded them by escalating military spending, and engaging in sequential wars, directly or by proxy, in seven countries, wreaking havoc and destruction. He faced minimum opposition as ex-peace activists, in dismay, turned away or grabbed a post and apologized for war. By 2012 the follower- less peace leaders repeat the same mantra to support Obama; but dare not repeat the past lie (in the name of ‘peace’) rather they claim in order ‘to defeat Romney’.<br />
The immigrant rights movements prior to the 2008 election of Obama mobilized several million…. till it was infiltrated and taken over by Mexican-American political hacks from the Democratic Party ad turned into an electoral machine to secure elected posts for themselves and Obama. He rewarded the immigrants by setting a record: seizing, jailing and expelling 1.5 million immigrants over his tenure in office. The immigrant rights mass movement has been largely dismantled and now Democratic political hustlers hire canvassers to round up and register, highly disillusioned immigrant voters.<br />
Afro-Americans were the most neglected sector of the US working class under Obama: they experienced the highest levels of unemployment and home foreclosures and the longest period of joblessness. They became politically invisible as Obama bent over front ways to appease rabid White racists seeking to label him a ‘black president’. The established black leadership-political and religious – and the media celebrities went all out to block any expression of grass-roots opposition, claiming it would only “help the racists” – ignoring Obama’s embrace and bail out of White Wall Street and showing his backside to millions of black households under water. Without movement or leadership, fearful of the problem (economic racism) and the solution (4 more years of invisibility under Obama) most black workers are left to abstain or hold their nose and vote for ‘Oreo’ Obama.<br />
The Occupy Wall Street Movement, precisely because it was independent of the Democratic Party and fed up with Obama’s total subservience to Wall Street, provided a temporary voice for the vast majority of Americans opposed to both political parties. The local and state Democratic officials applauded “the cause” and then repressed the movement.<br />
A spontaneous movement without political direction, and lacking an alternative political leadership, was incapable of confronting the Obama regime: the movement declined and disintegrated, many sympathizers sucked up by the Obama ‘lesser evil’ propaganda campaign. The mass popular animus to Wall Street was defused by Obama’s claim to have saved “the economy” from catastrophe by channeling $4.5 trillion dollars into the bankers’ pockets.<br />
Constitutional rights were savaged by Obama’s defense of military trials, Bush era tortures, expansion of arbitration executive power including the assumption of Presidential power to assassinate US citizens without a trial. While legal organizations fought the good fight for civil liberties, the vast majority of liberals were notable by their absence from any sustained democratic movement upholding the rights of 40 million Americans under police surveillance, especially Muslim citizens and immigrants. They chose not to embarrass their Democratic President: they placed the re-election of a police-state Democrat over and above their putative defense of constitutional rights. No mass marches for civil liberties; no protests against Home Land Security; no campus-wide free speech movements against the abrogation of the right to criticize Israel .<br />
For decades, the trade union confederation and senior citizen movements defended Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. With Obama in office, openly declaring and preparing major reductions and regressive clauses on coverage (raising age qualification) and indexing, there is no significant protest movement. Programs which for the better part of a century (social security) or half century (Medicare, Medicaid) were considered untouchable are now, according to Obama, “on the table” to be gutted (“reformed”, “adjusted”). The trade union millionaire bosses hire a small army of campaign workers and raise over a $150 million to re-elect a President who promises to make huge cuts in medical programs for pensioners and the poor. Obama has legitimated the regressive social positions of the far-right while the Democratic Party neutralized any trade union opposition or mobilization.<br />
Last but not least, the Obama regime has co-opted progressive liberal social critics via backdoor support. In the name of “opposing Romney” the progressive pundits, like Chomsky and Ellsberg, end up in alliance with Wall Street and Silicon Valley billionaires, Pentagon militarists, Homeland Security boosters and Zionist ideologues (Dennis Ross) to elect Obama. Of course, the support of the progressives will be accepted -but hardly acknowledged- but they will have no influence on future Obama policy after the election: they will be discarded like used condoms.<br />
<strong>The Future: Post-Election Consequences</strong><br />
With or without the re-election of Obama, his regime and policies have laid the groundwork for an ever more regressive and reactionary social agenda: living standards including health, welfare, social security will be cut drastically. Afro-Americans will remain invisible except to the police and racist judicial system. Immigrants will be hunted down and driven out of homes and jobs: immigrant student dreams will become nightmares of fear and trepidation. Death squads, proxy and drone wars will multiply to prop up a bankrupt US empire. Unaccountable and hypocritical progressives will shift gears and criticize the president they elected; or if it’s Romney they will attack the same vices they overlooked during Obama’s electoral campaign: more cuts in public spending and climate change will result in greater deterioration in everyday life and basic infrastructure; more floods, fires, plagues and blackouts. New Yorkers will learn to detox their toilet water; they might be drinking and bathing in it.</div>
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<span itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="715" style="font-size: 250%;">J</span>okes reveal truths, which is why the best way to appreciate the real Obama, not the fabled character of hope and change, is how he tells jokes. He’s good at, no, great at telling jokes. He kills at comedic performances, and his sense of timing is magnificent. Jokes, though, show how someone really sees the world, and the joke I’m thinking of is one he made during a speech in March 2009, when the revelations of AIG’s massive retention bonuses became public. It had been less than two months since Obama’s inauguration, but the major policy framework of the administration – the bailouts – had been laid down. The AIG bonus scandal was outrageous to the public, a symbol of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars being funneled to an arrogant corporation that had helped destroy the economy.</div>
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Barack Obama had stepped up to the lectern to deliver a stern rebuke to AIG executives who had taken bonuses with taxpayer money. Obama talked of the outrage of an irresponsible company, and how his administration would do everything within its power to get the money back. But a few minutes in, he coughed, slightly, choking a bit, as his mouth was a bit dry. But after he coughed, he stopped, and reflected on the gesture with a joke. ”I’m choked, choked with anger”, he said. Obama chuckled. Reporters laughed. And it was funny, really funny. Because everyone in the room knew that Obama wasn’t actually angry about the AIG bonuses, and never intended to do anything about it. No one there was angry about the bonuses, and everyone knew nothing would happen to AIG executives. The House would pass bills, which would die in the Senate. The only people angry were Americans at large, who could not believe that their government worked for Wall Street. So the joke was funny, ironic, cool. But the moment wasn’t right for it, because this was a serious time for outrage – so Obama quickly reverted to form, and the teleprompter took over.</div>
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Pundits didn’t reflect on this “joke”. No one really noted it. It was very much like George Bush’s comment to reporters that was only later highlighted by Michael Moore, when Bush was on a golf course and perfunctorily said “we must find these terrorist killers….” and then turned to swing a golf club. ”Now watch this drive.” Obama had risen to that level of duplicity, not a lie in the conventional sense of saying something that wasn’t true, but an entirely constructed false persona. He had polished the tools of the Presidency – the utter banality of PR, the constipated talking points, the routine abuse of power – and taken them to a new level with a self-aware sense of irony about his own narcissistic dishonesty. His challenge was so outrageous – I dare you to call me on what a liar I am as I joke about how much I am lying to you right now – that he turned an obnoxious bluff into art.</div>
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This is cynicism as art. It’s literally a Presidential candidate running on hope and change saying that campaign promises are a joke and a ruse. His comments on AIG were similarly dishonest. When Barack Obama spoke about the AIG money, he gave a well-constructed speech in which he discussed how his administration would do everything legally possible to block the payment of those bonuses. Of course, <a href="http://www.sigtarp.gov/reports/audit/2009/Extent_of_Federal_Agencies%27_Oversight_of_AIG_Compensation_Varied_and_Important_Challenges_Remain_10_14_09.pdf" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="726">those bonuses </a>had been paid out days before he made the statement, so the idea that he’d “block” the bonuses was already something of deception. His promises to do everything legal to claw back the money were also misleading – Obama didn’t get the money back, and never intended to. In fact, the administration <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/29763023/Obama_Officials_Sought_To_Keep_AIG_Bonuses_Dodd" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="725">had weeks earlier asked Chris Dodd</a> to insert a provision into law ensuring the AIG bonuses would be paid – and then blamed Dodd for the fiasco.</div>
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Politicians play hardball all the time. They lie on a regular basis, it’s one of the tricks of the trade. But Obama’s politics, and his career, are built on an exquisitely and brilliantly constructed narrative of integrity and progress. He is the outsider become the insider, the multi-racial meritocrat whose black and white heritage came together into the ultimate conciliator and political leader. His is the story of America, that of a brilliant Harvard Law school educated striver with roots in community organizing, who became a powerful orator, and then America’s first black President. Progressive in spirit, cautious in temperament, he first and foremost <em itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="727">understands </em>the challenges facing the nation, the powerful injustice of slavery’s heritage, even though he ultimately finds solace in his belief in America, in American institutions, and in the ultimate goodness of the American way of life.</div>
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But there is another narrative, a real narrative about Barack Obama and his administration. Obama is the ultimate cynic, a dishonest, highly reactionary social and corporate ladder climbing con artist. Obama is the guy who calls a female reporter “sweety”, who plays poker with the guys, and who <a href="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/how-modest-is-robert-gibbss-salary/" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="730" target="_blank">thinks that his senior advisor’s decision to cash out</a> after making a “modest” salary of $172,000 at the White House is just natural. He’s the guy who used the rationale that he’s a father of two girls as to why he doesn’t want young women to have access to Plan B. He was in favor of gay marriage in 1996, flip flopped for political reasons, and then pretended to change his mind as a matter of conscience. He runs on populism with a worse record than George W. Bush on income inequality. His narcissism, and the post-modern ironic sense of self-awareness of how his narrative is put together and tended, is his defining character trait. <strong itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="729">It’s not just that he’s a liar</strong>. <strong itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="728"> Lyndon Johnson was a liar, but LBJ lied us into a war in Vietnam as well as a war on poverty. FDR lied all the time, for good and ill. Obama’s entire edifice is based on lying almost entirely to help sustain his image, with almost no interest in sound policy-making</strong>. Obama understands banking, and war, and women’s issues, and corruption and Citizens United. Like a great con artist, he has studied his mark, the American voter, and specifically the Democratic voter, and he undersands which buttons to push.</div>
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Many criticize Obama, with the idea that he doesn’t understand, and if only he understood, he would change his mind. This is part of his false narrative of hope and change. But Obama reads Paul Krugman – he studied the left intensely and spent years as a community organizer. He understands his opposition, those crying out for justice against the powerful, and finds them laughable, finds in them weakness at best, a punchline at worst. He reads his left-wing opponents so he can absorb the talking points, and rebut them. Some think that Obama can be appealed to around the better angels of nature, that he’s naturally with “the left” but must be gently praised. But again, this is more of the false hope and change narrative. Obama understands Saul Alinsky. He gets left-wing ideas. But he hates the left, with the passion of any bully towards his victims<em itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="731">. </em>To him, they are chumps, weak, pathetic, losers. They are such pathetic losers, in fact, that they will believe anything he tells them. And Obama has no better nature, he is what he’s done in office, someone who murders children with drone strikes and then jokes about it to his rich friends.</div>
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Yves <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/barack-obama-the-great-deceiver.html" itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="732" target="_blank">wrote about this narrative a few weeks ago</a>, when she pointed out his career in the Illinois state Senate was based on working for billionaire developers to destroy poor neighborhoods. Few really gets who he is, at his core, and almost no one is willing to publicly point it out. There are some who went to law school with him, who saw his enormous grasping social climbing tendencies, his eager corporate good old boy persona, his narcissistic calculations. But they are drowned out by the institutional left-wing voices, the fanboy reporters, the sycophantic labor leaders, the slavishly worshipful foundations, and the voters who cannot hear any alternative to the hope and change they know and love. The only mainstream narrative challenging hope and change is the stupid right-wing storyline that he’s a Kenyan Muslim socialist. That’s just racist idiocy. But there are those on the right who understand Obama’s narcissism, and they may just make that their electoral narrative.</div>
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Think about this problem in a slightly different way. It’s been three years. Why hasn’t been there a great iconic impersonator of Barack Obama, like Tina Fey and Sarah Palin or Will Ferrell (or James Adomian) and George W. Bush? A comic impersonator reveals something about the core of an individual. The people imitating Obama seem to think that he’s far more left-wing and principled beneath the surface, that if he let out who he really was, how really angry he is at the Republicans, that’s the parody they hit. It falls flat, because it’s not true to who he is. <strong itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="733">The truth is that he’s a narcissistic sociopath dressed up as a cool corporate brand</strong>. The real Obama parody is an Obama who wears an Air Force One fleece over an Obama t-shirt, who says to a reporter “Now hang on, let me finish, speaking slowly and avoiding your question, which is, by the way excellent.” He’s President, and if you’re upset with him, don’t worry, look at that beautiful photo of Obama smiling and pointing.</div>
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This alternative narrative is a hard truth to hear, because it carries with it an implicit rejection of American exceptionalism. Yes, American institutions are no better, and in many ways are more malignant, than those of many other countries. Yes, our political leaders, our press, our military leadership, operate in service to sociopathic aims. Yes, our freedoms are often an illusion, unless you fit a very narrow criteria. Yes, our banks are run to rob us, yes, our CIA spies on us, and yes, our government is fundamentally anti-democratic. <strong itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="734">Yes, our President is a con artist, and yes, nearly every reporter who writes about him participates in this set of lies, because of careerism, social financial reasons, or a simple lack of competence or imagination</strong>.</div>
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But, the idea that the king is always good, which is where the hope and change narrative draws its deep strength, is something we do not have to accept. We as people can break this spell, and speak to our own dignity, as citizens. We can learn our own power, if in no other manner than in saying at the voting booth and in public, “I do not accept your lies, and though you might take it by force, I will not grant you my consent willingly.” We can choose not to address our political officials by their titles. We can work to organize ourselves, and our lives, with those of us who understand that power is something that must be taken, with money, organization, but most of all, with moral courage. It is not something that politicians have except through our consent, consent we have been giving for decades, to a rotten political class. This is what they truly fear. This is why they spend tens of billions on propaganda, on advertising, on symbols and personalities and celebrity. This is why they hide the workings of our government and banks and institutions of power in the language of boring bureaucrat-ese. This is ultimately why they are weak. Because in order for them to do their work quietly, we must go about our day, and believe either the hope and change narrative, or the Kenyan socialist narrative, scoffing at the opposing “team” who thinks what we do not. Instead, we can choose an alternative narrative, that power and consent come from us, come from the choices that we make, as people, and as citizens. <strong itxtharvested="0" itxtnodeid="735">And we will no longer believe that Barack Obama, that cool, brilliant, self-aware con artist is anything but what he has revealed himself to be</strong>.</div>
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<em>The Southeast Asian country of Laos in the late 1950s and early 60s was a complex and confusing patchwork of civil conflicts, changes of government and switching loyalties. The CIA and the State Department alone could take credit for engineering coups at least once in each of the years 1958, 1959 and 1960. No study of Laos of this period appears to have had notable success in untangling the muddle of who exactly replaced whom, and when, and how, and why. After returning from Laos in 1961, American writer Norman Cousins stated that “if you want to get a sense of the universe unraveling, come to Laos. Complexity such as this has to be respected.” 1</em><br />
Syria 2012 has produced its own tangled complexity. In the past 18 months it appears that at one time or another virtually every nation in the Middle East and North Africa as well as members of NATO and the European Union has been reported as aiding those seeking to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad, while Russia, China, and several other countries are reported as aiding Assad. The Syrian leader, for his part, has consistently referred to those in combat against him as “terrorists”, citing the repeated use of car bombs and suicide bombers. The West has treated this accusation with scorn, or has simply ignored it. But the evidence that Assad has had good reason for his stance has been accumulating for some time now, particularly of late. Here is a small sample from recent months:<br />
•”It is the sort of image that has become a staple of the Syrian revolution, a video of masked men calling themselves the Free Syrian Army and brandishing AK-47s — with one unsettling difference. In the background hang two flags of Al Qaeda, white Arabic writing on a black field … The video, posted on YouTube, is one more bit of evidence that Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists are doing their best to hijack the Syrian revolution.” (New York Times, July 24, 2012)<br />•A leading German newspaper reported that the German intelligence service, BND, had concluded that 95% of the Syrian rebels come from abroad and are likely to be members of al Qaeda. (Die Welt, September 30, 2012)<br />•”A network of French Islamists behind a grenade attack on a kosher market outside Paris last month also planned to join jihadists fighting in Syria … Two suspects were responsible for recruiting and dispatching people ‘to carry out jihad in some countries – notably Syria’,” a state prosecutor said. (Associated Press, October 11, 2012)<br />•”Fighters from a shadowy militant group [Jabhat al-Nusra] with suspected links to al-Qaida joined Syrian rebels in seizing a government missile defense base in northern Syria on Friday, according to activists and amateur video. …The videos show dozens of fighters inside the base near a radar tower, along with rows of large missiles, some on the backs of trucks.” (Associated Press, October 12, 2012)<br />•”In a videotape posted this week on militant forums, the Egyptian-born jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri … urged support for Syria’s uprisings.” (Associated Press, October 28, 2012)<br />According to your favorite news source or commentator, President Assad is either a brutal murderer of his own people, amongst whom he has had very little support; or he’s a hero who’s long had the backing of the majority of the Syrian population and who is standing up to Western imperialists and their terrorist comrades-in-arms, whom the US is providing military aid, intelligence, and propaganda services.<br />
Washington and its freedom fighters de jour would like to establish Libya II. And we all know how well Libya I has turned out.<br />
<strong>Of backward nations and modern nations</strong><br />
Page one of the October 24 Washington Post contained a prominent photo of a man chained to a concrete wall at a shrine in Afghanistan. The accompanying story told us that the man was mentally ill and that “legend has it that those with mental disorders will be healed after spending 40 days in one of the shrine’s 16 tiny concrete cells”, living “on a subsistence diet of bread, water and black pepper.” Every year hundreds of Afghans bring mentally ill relatives to the shrine for this “cure”.<br />
Immediately to the right of this story, constituting the paper’s lead story of the day, we learn that the United States is planning to continue its policy of assassinating individuals, via drone attacks, for the foreseeable future. This is Washington’s “cure” for the mental illness of not believing that America is the savior of mankind, bringing democracy, freedom and happiness to all. (The article adds that the number of “militants and civilians” killed in the drone campaign over the past 10 years will soon exceed 3,000 by some estimates, surpassing the number of people killed on September 11.)<br />
Undoubtedly there are many people in Afghanistan, high and low, who know that their ancient cure is nonsense, but the chainings have continued for centuries. Just as certain, there are American officials who know the same about their own cure. Here’s a senior American official: “We can’t possibly kill everyone who wants to harm us. … We’re not going to wind up in 10 years in a world of everybody holding hands and saying, ‘We love America’.” Yet , we are told, “Among senior Obama administration officials, there is a broad consensus that such operations are likely to be extended at least another decade. Given the way al-Qaeda continues to metastasize, some officials said no clear end is in sight.”<br />
We can also be confident that there have been people chained to the wall in Afghanistan who were not particularly mentally ill to begin with but became so because of the cure. And just as certain, there have been numerous people in several countries who were not anti-American until a drone devastated their village, family or neighbors.<br />
The Post article also reported that Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, returned from Pakistan a while ago and recounted a heated confrontation with his counterpart, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. “Mullen told White House and counterterrorism officials that the Pakistani military chief had demanded an answer to a seemingly reasonable question: After hundreds of drone strikes, how could the United States possibly still be working its way through a ‘top 20′ list?”<br />
American officials defended the arrangement even while acknowledging an erosion in the caliber of operatives placed in the drones’ cross hairs. “Is the person currently Number 4 as good as the Number 4 seven years ago? Probably not,” said a former senior U.S. counterterrorism official. “But it doesn’t mean he’s not dangerous.” The Post added this comment: “Internal doubts about the effectiveness of the drone campaign are almost nonexistent.”<br />
The next day we could read in the Post: “There is ample evidence in Pakistan that the more than 300 [drone] strikes launched under Obama have helped turn the vast majority of the population vehemently against the United States.”<br />
<strong>Wake up and smell the bullshit. Then go vote.</strong><br />
After the second presidential debate in early October, Luke Rudkowski of the media group We Are Change asked Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, about President Obama’s widely reported “kill list” of Americans and foreigners who can be assassinated without charge or trial.<br />
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”</div>
Luke Rudkowski: “Obama has a secret ‘kill list’ which he has used to assassinate different people all over the world.”<br />
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “I’m happy to answer any serious questions you have.”<br />
Luke Rudkowski: “Why is that not serious?”<br />
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Because I have no idea what you’re talking about.”<br />
Luke Rudkowski: “Of course you don’t.”<br />
The existence of the U.S. ‘kill list’ has been publicly known for nearly two years and was the subject of a 6,000-word exposé in the New York Times in May.<br />
At the same event, Sierra Adamson of We Are Change asked former White House Press Secretary and current Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs about the U.S. killing of Abdulrahman Awlaki, the teenage son of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.<br />
Sierra Adamson: “Do you think that the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son, who was an American citizen, is justifiable?”<br />
Robert Gibbs: “I’m not going to get into Anwar al-Awlaki’s son. I know that Anwar al-Awlaki renounced his citizenship.”<br />
Sierra Adamson: “His son was still an American citizen.”<br />
Robert Gibbs: “Did great harm to people in this country and was a regional al-Qaeda commander hoping to inflict harm and destruction on people that share his religion and others in this country. And…”<br />
Sierra Adamson: “That’s an American citizen that’s being targeted without due process of law, without trial. And he’s underage. He’s a minor.”<br />
Robert Gibbs: “I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father. If they’re truly concerned about the well-being of their children, I don’t think becoming an al-Qaeda jihadist terrorist is the best way to go about doing your business.” 2<br />
To demonstrate that the bullshit is bipartisan, we now present Mr. Mitt Romney, speaking during the presidential foreign policy debate: “Syria is Iran’s only ally in the Arab world. It’s their route to the sea. It’s the route for them to arm Hezbollah in Lebanon, which threatens, of course, our ally, Israel.”<br />
However, a look at a map reveals firstly that Iran does not share a border with Syria; there’s something called Iraq in between; and secondly that Iran already has access to the sea on both its north and south; actually about 1100 miles of coastline. Romney has made this particular blunder repeatedly, and the Washington Post has pointed it out on several occasions. Post columnist Al Kamen recently wrote: “We tried so hard back in February to get Romney to stop saying that.” 3<br />
Of course, neither Obama nor the debate moderator pointed out Romney’s errors.<br />
<strong>The sanctity of life</strong><br />
“I’m as pro-life as a person gets,” Congressman Paul Ryan, the Republican candidate for vice-president, told the conservative Weekly Standard in 2010. 4<br />
How nice. Yet the man supports all of America’s wars, each of which takes the lives of large numbers of people, both American and foreign; and he’s opposed to national health insurance, which would save countless more lives. The good congressman is also an avid hunter and supporter of gun-owners’ rights, so he apparently is not too pro-life concerning other creatures of God’s Kingdom. Of course, what Ryan actually means by “life” is an embryo or fetus, perhaps even a zygote. Oh wait, that’s not all of it – corporations are also people whose lives Ryan cherishes.<br />
<strong>The fate of those who do not love the empire</strong><br />
On October 7 Hugo Chávez won his fourth term in office as president of Venezuela. The feeling of frustration that must have descended upon the Venezuelan and American power elite is likely reminiscent of Chile, March 1973, when the party of another socialist and American bête noire, Salvador Allende — despite the best intentions and dollars without end of the CIA — won about 44 percent of the vote in congressional elections, compared to some 36 percent in 1970. It was said to be the largest increase an incumbent party had ever received in Chile after being in power more than two years. The opposition parties had publicly expressed their optimism about capturing two-thirds of the congressional seats and thus being able to impeach Allende. Now they faced three more years under him, with the prospect of being unable, despite their most underhanded efforts, to prevent his popularity from increasing even further.<br />
During the spring and summer the Agency’s destabilization process escalated. There was a whole series of demonstrations and strikes, with a particularly long one by the truckers. Time magazine reported: “While most of the country survived on short rations, the truckers seemed unusually well equipped for a lengthy holdout.” A reporter asked a group of truckers who were camping and dining on “a lavish communal meal of steak, vegetables, wine and empanadas” where the money for it came from. “From the CIA,” they answered laughingly. 5<br />
There was as well daily sabotage and violence, including assassination. In June, an abortive attack upon the Presidential Palace was carried out by the military and the ultra-right Patria y Libertad.<br />
In September the military prevailed. “It is clear,” said the later US Senate investigating committee, “the CIA received intelligence reports on the coup planning of the group which carried out the successful September 11 coup throughout the months of July, August, and September 1973.” 6 The United States had also prepared the way for the military action through its economic intervention and support of the anti-Allende media.<br />
Chávez has already been overthrown once in a coup that the United States choreographed, in 2002, but a combination of some loyal military officers and Chávez’s followers in the streets combined for a remarkable reversal of the coup after but two days. The Venezuelan opposition will not again make the mistake of not finishing Chávez off when they have him in their custody.<br />
Both Hugo Chávez and Salvador Allende had sinned by creating “nationalistic” regimes that served the wrong “national interest”. The hatred felt by the power elite for such men is intense. The day after the legally and democratically elected Venezuelan leader was ousted, but before being restored to power, the New York Times (April 13, 2002) was moved to pen the following editorial:<br />
“With yesterday’s resignation [what the coup leaders called it] of President Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator. Mr. Chávez, a ruinous demagogue, stepped down after the military intervened and handed power to a respected business leader.”<br />
It should be noted that the “respected business leader”, Pedro Carmona, quickly dissolved the National Assembly and the Supreme Court, and annulled the Venezuelan constitution.<br />
And keep in mind that in the United States the New York Times is widely regarded as a “liberal” newspaper; most conservatives would say “very liberal”, if not “socialist”.<br />
<strong>Notes</strong><br />1.William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, chapter 21 ↩<br />2.Democracy Now, October 25, 2012 ↩<br />3.Washington Post, October 24, 2012, column by Al Kamen ↩<br />4.New York Times, August 12, 2012 ↩<br />5.Time, September 24, 1973, p.46 ↩<br />6.Covert Action in Chile, 1963‑1973, a Staff Report of The Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (US Senate) December 18, 1975, p.39 ↩<br />–<br />
William Blum is the author of:<br />
•Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War 2<br />•Rogue State: A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower<br />•West-Bloc Dissident: A Cold War Memoir<br />•Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire<br />Portions of the books can be read, and signed copies purchased, at www.killinghope.org</div>
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The President has signed another <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/26/executive-order-establishing-white-house-homeland-security-partnership-c" jquery172020801892295062863="9"><span style="color: #474134;">executive order</span></a>. This one expands the mission of Homeland <span class="IL_AD" iceid="9" id="IL_AD7"><u><span style="color: #009900;">Security</span></u></span> in the U.S. The order establishes a new “<span><span>S</span>ecurity</span> Partnership Council”. Yes that’s right, more government workers to be hired for this new bureaucracy ‘council’.<br />
What is the new <span><span>S</span>ecurity</span> Partnership Council? Well look at the words…<br /><span id="more-24873"></span><br /><span><span>S</span>ecurity</span>. The government has brainwashed us into thinking that we need them more and more for our <span><span>s</span>ecurity</span>.<br />
Partnership. The government wants to ‘partner’ (wink-wink… control)…<br />Quote: “to foster local partnerships — between the Federal Government and the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, community-based organizations, and State, local, tribal, and territorial government and <span class="IL_AD" iceid="3" id="IL_AD1"><u><span style="color: #009900;">law enforcement</span></u></span>”<br />Did you catch that? “private sector” and “nongovernmental organizations”???<br />
Council. A bureaucracy.<br />
What’s the mission? Quote: “promote homeland <span><span>s</span>ecurity</span> priorities and opportunities for collaboration between Federal Government field <span class="IL_AD" iceid="13" id="IL_AD11"><u><span style="color: #009900;">offices</span></u></span> and State, local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders;”<br />
And this is interesting… Quote: “…advise and confer with State, local, tribal, and territorial stakeholders and agencies”. <span class="IL_AD" iceid="14" id="IL_AD12"><u><span style="color: #009900;">Keyword</span></u></span>: “advise” (control?)<br />
It seems that the Department of Homeland <span><span>S</span>ecurity</span> wants to reach its tentacles of influence and control into private and public agencies, “stakeholders?”, so as to further its apparent goal of <span class="IL_AD" iceid="10" id="IL_AD8"><u><span style="color: #009900;">total</span></u></span> overreach and control of you and I, the American citizen.<br />
The Examinar.com got it right when it said that since it’s creation (DHS) in 2001 from the aftermath of 9/11, the Department of Homeland <span><span>S</span>ecurity</span> has expanded its authority over states, communities, and <span><span>l</span>aw enforcement</span> each year. From expanding TSA responsibilities over airport <span class="IL_AD" iceid="12" id="IL_AD10"><u><span style="color: #009900;">transportation</span></u></span> to now include trains, subways, and even highway checkpoints, to new regulations in how border control agents function in immigration conflicts, <strong>Homeland <span><span>S</span>ecurity</span> is one of the fastest growing government agencies in the past decade</strong>.<br />
Through creating a new Steering Committee in partnership with how Homeland <span><span>S</span>ecurity</span> missions, directives, and programs are implemented in state and local levels, the fine line between state sovereignty and the need to protect the country from disaster and terror attacks is becoming smaller every day. Over the past few years Homeland <span><span>S</span>ecurity</span> <span class="IL_AD" iceid="8" id="IL_AD6"><u><span style="color: #009900;">grants</span></u></span> to local <span><span>l</span>aw enforcement</span> have led to a militarization of police and public <span class="IL_AD" iceid="5" id="IL_AD3"><u><span style="color: #009900;">safety</span></u></span>, and new drone technology is being used in <span class="IL_AD" iceid="4" id="IL_AD2"><u><span style="color: #009900;">criminal</span></u></span> investigations outside the scope of national <span><span>s</span>ecurity</span>.<br />
In a little more than a decade, the Department of Homeland <span><span>S</span>ecurity</span>, in conjunction with its underlying and partnering Federal agencies, have infiltrated nearly every community in America. <strong>This new <span class="IL_AD" iceid="7" id="IL_AD5"><u><span style="color: #009900;">Executive</span></u></span> Order, which expands the scope of the agency and gives it greater power in state and local partnerships, will mean greater loss of freedoms and liberties to both the states and citizens as the Federal government imposes greater authority over what should remain state sovereignty scope and missions.</strong><br />
Where is the public outcry? It cannot be found. For one reason, IT IS NOT BEING REPORTED IN THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA. Additionally, and unfortunately, many Americans have become soft and are perfectly willing to go along with an increasing police state, for the sake of “<span><span>s</span>ecurity</span>”.<br />
The end game for this type of government policing will end badly. Look at past history. Its not pretty. Why not resist it now and push back a little? If you are uncomfortable with it, please mail, <span class="IL_AD" iceid="11" id="IL_AD9"><u><span style="color: #009900;">email</span></u></span>, or call your representatives. <em>After all, if they do not hear from you, how will they know that you are upset?</em> Or are you upset??<br />
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MF Global fraud fighter, James Koutoulas, posted this yesterday on Twitter - "If anyone still thinks <a class="twitter-atreply pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama" itxtbad="1" itxtnodeid="162"><strong itxtbad="1">@BarackObama</strong></a> has kept his promise to "clean up <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://dailybail.com/home/corzined-obama-and-holder-owned-by-wall-street.html#" id="itxthook0" rel="nofollow"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #95181c 1px dotted; border-top: medium none; color: #95181c; padding-bottom: 1px !important; text-decoration: none;">Wall Street</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" /></span></a>" please review the following video."</div>
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President Obama took over $49 million in campaign donations from Wall Street, his Justice Department is full of former white collar defense lawyers, and 4 years after our financial collapse, not a single senior Wall Street executive has been charged with a crime.</div>
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CORZINED - <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=corzined" itxtbad="1" itxtnodeid="165">Urban Dictionary</a></div>
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When something of value is stolen, and everyone who was in charge of safeguarding the valuable claims ignorance of just about anything. People in charge who confronted with questions about the valuable items usually answer, "I just dont know where it is" or claim that the valuables were "vaporized" when it was their job to know.</div>
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Who is Jon Corzine - CNN:</div>
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Good clip exposing Corzine's <a class="itxtrst itxtrsta itxthook" href="http://dailybail.com/home/corzined-obama-and-holder-owned-by-wall-street.html#" id="itxthook1" rel="nofollow"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1w" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #95181c 1px dotted; border-top: medium none; color: #95181c; padding-bottom: 1px !important; text-decoration: none;">Obama</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook1icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 4px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important;" /></span></a> connection. A look at the career of former MF Global CEO Jon Corzine as he moved from Goldman Sachs titan to Washington power broker.</div>
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Tests have been carried out to see whether military drones can mix safely in the air with passenger planes.<br />
The tests involved a Predator B drone fitted with radio location systems found on domestic aircraft that help them spot and avoid other planes.<br />
The tests will help to pave the way for greater use of drones in America's domestic airspace.<br />
The flight tests took place off the coast of Florida in early August, but details have only just been released.<br />
<strong><em>The Predator B used in the tests is a modified version of the Guardian drone typically used by the US navy. While such robot planes have been widely used in war zones and on military operations, their use over native soil has been restricted. </em></strong><br />
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This is NOT about air "security" or surveillance.<br />
And what these armed drones have been doing in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen, will be coming to the airspace over the US in the not too distant future. <br />
I can almost guarantee you one thing:<strong><em> what has happened in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and Yemen will not stay in Pakistan, Libya, Afghanistan, and Yemen.</em></strong><br /><a href="http://livingunderdrones.org/background-and-context/" title="Living Under Drones">here are two types of lethal drones primarily now used by the US: the MQ-1B Predator and the MQ-9 Reaper.[10] The Predator MQ-1B, first flown in 1994,[11] was designed “to provide persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information combined with a kill capability.”[12] Equipped with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, the Predator MQ-1B was the world’s first-ever weaponized unmanned aircraft system.[13] As P.W. Singer writes in Wired for War, “[a]t twenty-seven feet in length, [the Predator] is just a bit smaller than a Cessna. . . . made of composite materials instead of metals, the Predator weighs just 1,130 pounds. Perhaps its best quality is that it can spend some twenty-four hours in the air, flying at heights of up to twenty-six thousand feet.”[14] The MQ-9 Reaper “is larger and more powerful than the MQ-1 Predator and is designed to prosecute time-sensitive targets with persistence and precision, and destroy or disable those targets.”[15] The technical precision of these weapons has been disputed, including by companies that developed software used in targeting.[16] One factor that reduces targeting precision is ‘latency,’ the delay between movement on the ground and the arrival of the video image via satellite to the drone pilot. As the New York Times reported in July 2012, “Last year senior operatives with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula told a Yemeni reporter that if they hear an American drone overhead, they move around as much as possible.”[17] Even when they are precise, however, casualties and damage are not necessarily confined to the specific individual, vehicle, or structure targeted. The blast radius from a Hellfire missile can extend anywhere from 15-20 meters;[18] shrapnel may also be projected significant distances from the blast.</a><br />
In light of the fact that through the passage of the Patriot Act, the Homeland Security Act, and the signing of the NDAA, the United States of America has become a post-Constitutional republic, where none of the guarantees and rights which used to be afforded American citizens under the Constitution and Bill of Rights apply. <br />
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/10/09/the_awlaki_memo_and_marty_lederman/" title="The Awlaki memo and Marty Lederman ">Several months after President Obama ordered Anwar Awlaki killed by the CIA, the Obama DOJ — specifically lawyers within its Office of Legal Counsel — produced a memorandum legally authorizing this action. Despite multiple requests, the Obama administration refuses to release that memo to the public. Several DOJ officials, hiding behind anonymity, have apparently refused to leak the memo, but have now selectively described parts of it to The New York Times‘ Charlie Savage – presumably the parts they wanted him to know about — and he then reported on what they said (offering some important counter-points along the way). As Savage put it: The secret document provided the justification for acting [against Awlaki] despite an executive order banning assassinations, a federal law against murder, protections in the Bill of Rights and various strictures of the international laws of war, according to people familiar with the analysis.</a><br />
So if President Obama believes that he has the right to extrajudicially assassinate any US national on foreign soil, by logical extension,<strong><em> that means he believes he also has the right to extrajudicially assassinate any American here on American soil.</em></strong><br />
<a href="http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-arming-d" title="What Could Possibly Go Wrong With Arming Domestic Drones?">In our latest episode of "Let's Militarize The Police And Treat Civilians As The Enemy," we now want the same scattershot drone technology to be used right here in the good old U.S. of A.! What could possibly go wrong? I know: We'll pass a law saying that anyone shot by drones was a "militant" and that will fix everything! Oy: American police officers may soon be able to use unmanned aircraft not only for surveillance, but also for offensive action. The drones may be equipped to fire rubber rounds and tear gas. “Those are things that law enforcement utilizes day in and day out, and in certain situations it might be advantageous to have this type of system on the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle),” Chief Deputy Randy McDaniel of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in Texas told The Daily news app as he outlined the possible development. The US military and CIA have used drones armed with lethal weapons to target militants overseas for years. The prospect of having “lite” versions of those remotely controlled killer-machines circling over America gave some second thoughts to rights groups</a><br />
<strong><em>The only question is, when the US government makes the decision to arm drones and deploy them domestically, not if; this technology is here, proven in battle (including creating scores of innocent victims), and were I betting woman, would bet on the deployment of these drones coming sooner rather than later.</em></strong></div>
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Despite Hurricane Sandy, the Supreme Court on Monday entertained oral arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans’ communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.</div>
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The hearing <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/scotus-eavesdropping/">marked the first time the Supreme Court has reviewed any case touching on the eavesdropping program</a> that was secretly employed by the President George W. Bush administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, and largely codified into law years later.</div>
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Just three weeks ago that the Supreme Court closed a six-year-old chapter in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency with backdoors to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications in violation of federal law. The justices, <a href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.aspx?FileName=/docketfiles/11-1200.htm">without comment</a>, declined <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/scotus-electronic-spying-case/">to review a lower court’s December decision</a> dismissing the EFF’s lawsuit. At the center of the dispute was legislation retroactively immunizing the telcos from being sued for cooperating with the government in Bush’s warrantless spy program.</div>
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Fast forward to Monday, and the court took the historic step of hearing a post-September 11 spying case. Judging by the high court’s deference to Congress in general and how it killed the EFF spy case weeks ago, we likely already know the outcome of this highly complex issue now before the justices: Warrantless spying is expected to continue unabated for years, and possibly forever.</div>
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University of Baltimore legal scholar Garrett Epps in a Sunday blog post in the Atlantic asked in a headline whether “<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/is-big-brother-the-new-normal-the-supreme-court-will-decide/264170/">Big Brother is the New Normal?</a>” His own affirmative answer is spot-on:</div>
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“Whatever the court decides, Big Brother will still be watching. Big Brother may be watching you right now, and you may never know,” he said. “Since 9/11, our national life has changed forever. Surveillance is the new normal.”</div>
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The same law that immunized the telcos is before the justices. This time, however, another section of the <a href="http://intelligence.senate.gov/laws/pl110261.pdf">FISA Amendments Act</a> (.pdf) is at issue. The act, subject to a <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/07/aclu-challenges/">challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union and others</a>, authorizes the government to electronically eavesdrop on Americans’ phone calls and e-mails without a probable-cause warrant so long as one of the parties to the communication is believed to be outside the United States. Communications may be intercepted “to acquire foreign intelligence information.”</div>
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The FISA Amendments Act generally requires the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court, a secret tribunal set up in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon-era eavesdropping, to rubber-stamp terror-related electronic surveillance requests. The government does not have to identify the target or facility to be monitored. It can begin surveillance a week before making the request, and the surveillance can continue during the appeals process if, in a rare case, the secret FISA court rejects the surveillance application.</div>
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The Obama administration argues that the ACLU and a host of other groups don’t have the legal standing to even bring a challenge.</div>
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A lower court agreed, ruling the ACLU, Amnesty International, Global Fund for Women, Global Rights, Human Rights Watch, International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association, The Nation magazine, PEN American Center, Service Employees International Union and other plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the case because <a href="http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty/dismissal-aclu-challenge-unconstitutional-spying-law-jeopar">they could not demonstrate that they were subject to the eavesdropping</a>.</div>
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The groups <a href="http://www.aclu.org/national-security/faa-complaint">appealed</a> to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that they often work with overseas dissidents who might be targets of the National Security Agency program. Instead of speaking with those people on the phone or through e-mails, the groups asserted that they have had to make expensive overseas trips in a bid to maintain attorney-client confidentiality. The plaintiffs, some of them journalists, also claim the 2008 legislation chills their speech, and violates their Fourth Amendment privacy rights.</div>
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Without ruling on the merits of the case, <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/warrantless-eavesdropping/">the appeals court agreed with the plaintiffs</a> last year that they have ample reason to fear the surveillance program, and thus have legal standing to pursue their claim.</div>
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That’s what this case before the justices is all about, whether a lawsuit can be brought at all. The courts are years away, if ever, of entertaining the constitutional merits of the law in question. So the spying will continue unabated no matter how the Supreme Court decides Monday’s arguments.</div>
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The government’s argument can be reduced to this scary proposition: You can’t sue us for secretly spying on you because there’s no way for you to prove it. Case closed.</div>
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It is virtually <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html" title="beyond dispute">beyond dispute</a> that Bush and Cheney are war criminals.<br />
Will they ever be prosecuted?<br />
Or does might make right … since the victor writes history?</div>
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Today at 1:00 PM eastern time <span class="IL_AD" iceid="12" id="IL_AD10"><u><span style="color: #009900;">President Obama</span></u></span> and his opponent Mitt Romney announced a joint <span class="IL_AD" iceid="10" id="IL_AD8"><u><span style="color: #009900;">plan</span></u></span> to suspend their campaigns and convene an <span class="IL_AD" iceid="11" id="IL_AD9"><u><span style="color: #009900;">emergency</span></u></span> meeting in the epicenter of hurricane Sandy. The purpose of the meeting is meteorological in nature.<br />
The <span class="IL_AD" iceid="13" id="IL_AD11"><u><span style="color: #009900;">nature of</span></u></span> a hurricane is such that the mixture of warm winds from the south and cold air from the north Atlantic coast combine to form the destructive power of the whirlwind.<br /><span id="more-24587"></span><br />The candidates have agreed to convene an <span><span>e</span>mergency</span> series of presidential debates to provide an overwhelming current of hot air and thus quell the storm in its path.<br />
The <span><span>p</span>lan</span> is a bold one without scientific merit, and some have accused to president of grandstanding, and politicizing the hurricane. But this is not a time for partisan rancor, and we should support the novel approach of using debates to influence the weather.<br />
Ann Coulter has been temporarily placed in indefinite detention, the White house press corp quoting Obama as saying “because she’s an ice cold bitch.”<br />
The Fed has been granted temporary <span><span>e</span>mergency</span> powers to <span class="IL_AD" iceid="14" id="IL_AD12"><u><span style="color: #009900;">print</span></u></span> the needed carbon <span class="IL_AD" iceid="6" id="IL_AD4"><u><span style="color: #009900;">credits</span></u></span> to allow the <span><span>p</span>lan</span> to go forward under <span class="IL_AD" iceid="3" id="IL_AD1"><u><span style="color: #009900;">international law</span></u></span>.<br />
A task force of looters and FEMA personnel are on standby to provide post hurricane <span class="IL_AD" iceid="8" id="IL_AD6"><u><span style="color: #009900;">clean</span></u></span> up and entertainment.<br />
The president has ordered the opening of the strategic national Air Jordan reserve and stationed national guard at all the nation’s major depots for the duration of the storm.<br />
Political pundits are debating the impact the storm will have on the president election.<br />
One theory holds that sustained power outages throughout the northeast will disproportionately effect women, children and minority voters, and the deceased, thus favoring the Romney campaign.<br />
The opposing viewpoint holds that the hurricane will wreak tremendous havoc on infrastructure, breaking perhaps as many as 1.2 million <span class="IL_AD" iceid="9" id="IL_AD7"><u><span style="color: #009900;">windows</span></u></span> <span class="IL_AD" iceid="4" id="IL_AD2"><u><span style="color: #009900;">according to</span></u></span> some estimates. This is expected to provide the economy the boost it needs as we head into <span class="IL_AD" iceid="5" id="IL_AD3"><u><span style="color: #009900;">the home</span></u></span> stretch, favoring the incumbent.</div>
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<b>October 29-30, 2012 -- </b><br />Although the CIA has been known to engage in using non-traditional murder methods against targeted foreign leaders, including the aborted use of an unknown serum on Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba and unsuccessful poisonings of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, recent revelations have shown that the CIA has successfully carried out "medical assassinations." These include the alteration of prescribed medications to bring about death.<br /><br />According to the <i>Latin American Herald Tribune</i>, new information provided to Brazilian prosecutors by the family of former Brazilian leftist President Joao Goulart, who was called "Jango" by his supporters, show that the president, who had lived in exile in Uruguay and Argentina since his ouster in a 1964 coup, was poisoned in an operation carried out under the orders of Brazil's dictator, General Ernesto Geisel, with the support of the Uruguayan SID intelligence agency and the Central Intelligence Agency. Brazilian intelligence kept Goulart under constant surveillance in Uruguay. Even the Goulart family's cook in Uruguay turned out to be a Brazilian intelligence agent.<br /><br />Former Uruguayan intelligence agent Mario Neira Barreiro, who is in prison in Brazil for weapons smuggling, said Jango's heart medication pills were altered in order to have a "contrary effect." Goulart's official cause of death was determined to be a heart attack. <br /><br />At the time of Goulart's death in December 1976, George H. W. Bush was CIA director and Henry Kissinger was Secretary of State and President Gerald Ford's National Security Adviser. The Uruguayan agent said the assassination operation took place at the hotel in Mercedes, Argentina where Jango was staying and that it was carried out by the CIA, Brazilian secret police, and Uruguayan intelligence.<br /><br />The original March 1964 coup against Goulart was carried out with the help of the CIA and U.S. Navy. In a template that would be used in 1973 to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende, the U.S. Navy stationed ships off the Brazilian coast, including the <i>USS Forrestal</i> aircraft carrier, which was positioned off Rio de Janeiro, to assist the coup plotters. The CIA station at the U.S. embassy in Brasilia assisted the Brazilian coup plotters in an project the U.S. code named "Operation Brother Sam." U.S. ambassador Lincoln Gordon successfully lobbied to Kennedy and Johnson administrations to support the ouster of Goulart. Gordon was assisted by Third Secretary and vice consul Robert B. Bentley in the coup planning. Gordon's minister counselor in Brasilia was John Gordon Mein, who was assassinated in 1968 by Rebel Armed Forces (FAR) guerrillas while serving as U.S. ambassador to Guatemala.<br /><br />WMR reported on July 21, 2010 the following: "In 2000, the former governor of the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro, Leonel Brizola alleged that both Goulart and former Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek were both victims of Kissinger's Operation Condor. Kubitschek died in a suspicious car accident. Later, a member of Uruguay's intelligence service stated that Goulart was poisoned and Kubitschek killed in a staged car accident near Resende, Brazil on the orders of Brazilian dictator Ernesto Geisel, a close ally of Kissinger and Nixon. Kubitschek and Goulart were reportedly assassinated within five months of one another in 1976."<br /><br />Our report continued: "Much of the CIA's and Pentagon's current doctrine on Latin America destabilization is found in the declassified CIA manuals for 'PBSuccess,' the operation to overthrow [in 1954, former Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz], who, himself died mysteriously in a bathtub in 1971, while in exile in Mexico City. Refined during the Nixon and Reagan administrations by both the CIA and Pentagon Special Operations forces, the manual for assassinations and destabilization includes the use of murder of individuals with blows to the head by blunt or sharp instruments; falls on to hard surfaces from buildings from at least 75 feet; falls from bridges on to hard surfaces but not water, falls into elevator shafts and stair wells; staged automobile accidents -- expanded after 1954 to include airplane crashes; poisoning to induce heart attacks and incurable diseases such as cancer; and, for false flag propaganda purposes, assassinations by rifles, machine guns, handguns, and explosions."<br /><br />The revelations in Brazil about Goulart may also yield information on the CIA's medical assassination of ousted Indonesian President Sukarno, who died under house arrest in 1970. From WMR October 14, 2009: "<i>Counter Spy</i> from April/May 1979 contains a reference to a CIA agent who was instrumental in setting up a training program for centralized police forces around the world. He was Byron Engle, who trained police in Japan after World War II and, more interestingly, established a police advisory board in Turkey. Engle used the State Department to launder CIA funds for the police training program . . . In 1961, after Joao Goulart, a progressive and pro-unionist, was elected president of Brazil, Engle and his assistant, CIA officer Lauren J. ("Jack") Goin, oversaw the steady stream of CIA and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) official cover agents into Brazil. Goin had worked with Engle in setting up the CIA's police advisory team in Turkey and Goin helped establish a similar CIA training advisory team in Indonesia."<br /><br />Engle directed the Office of Public Safety (OPS) that operated as a CIA police training operation under the State Department cover of USAID. Engle also established the post-war Japanese National Police Academy. After OPS was discontinued, Engle advised domestic and foreign police agencies and eventually became the director of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Engle's wife, who worked for the American red Cross in Japan, Saipan, and Tinian, was recruited by the CIA to act as a liaison between the CIA and her husband's International Cooperation Agency/Public Safety operation at the State Department. Byron Engle also advised the governments of Laos and Cambodia on setting up their internal security/national police agencies.<br /><br />Goin had been recruited by the CIA's police training operation from the Pittsburgh and Allegheny Laboratory, where he served as director. Engle and his colleague in Indonesia, "Buck" Fruit, established a close relationship with the Indonesian National Police Commander and Police Minister, General Raden Said Soekanto Tjokroadiatmodjo, who was also the Worshipful Master and later, the Grand Master of the Freemason Lodge of Indonesia. On February 27, 1961, Sukarno banned the Masonic Lodge, earning him the wrath of Soekanto, who would be one of the participants in the 1965 CIA-organized military coup against Sukarno. Joining Engle, Fruit, and Goin as Indonesian police advisers were Robert Brougham, who was recruited from a Borneo Christian missionary operation for whom he served as a bush pilot, and Scotty Caplan, who was a USAID equipment manager in Turkey.<br /><br />The USAID police advisers were a rought crowd. Jack Ryan, the head of the USAID Public Safety Division (PSD) in Saigon, was shot and killed by one of his own CIA advisers in 1965. The PSD in South Vietnam operated uinder the agehis of the CIA's Civil Operation Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), also known as Operation PHOENIX. <br /><br />After his stint in Indonesia, Goin became an adviser to INTERPOL and then he went to Turkey to train that nation's national police in 1958. Engle, the head of the Civil Police Division for ICA/AID frequently joined Goin in Ankara and Istanbul to oversee the program. Goin was assigned to Brazil in 1960. The next year, 1961, the USAID's Central American Assistance Team (CAAT) and South American Assistance Team (SAAT), ostensibly used for police training, were involved in support and training for CIA mercenaries involved in the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.<br /><br />In 1963, Engle helped establish the International Police Acdemy (IPA), which trained foreign police officers. At the IPA's first graduation class, Attorney General Robert Kennedy gave the commencement address. Three weeks later, his brother, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. Under NSAM-117, President Kennedy assigned responsibility for foreign police operations and training to the State Department, but in reality, it was handled by the CIA. Kennedy specifically did not want to training to fall under the Defense Department and the military. The USAID police training operation ended in 1973.<br /><br />The 1976 medical assassination of Goulart was carried out by Brazilian secret police agents trained in torture and "wet affairs" by the CIA, and specifically Engle and Goin. Goin established a similar unit in Indonesia. Many Indonesians believe that Sukarno was assassinated in Jakarta in 1970 possibly by having his kidney medication altered. Sukarno was confined to Bogor Palace and his level of medical treatment was dictated by the Suharto regime and his CIA overseers. Sukarno died at the Jakarta Army Hospital on June 21, 1970. <br /><br />Many Turks believe that President Turgut Ozal and former Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit were assassinated by medical means. Ozal died while in office from a sudden heart attack and his widow later questioned the lack of an autopsy and suggested Ozal's lemonade had been poisoned. Ozal was known to have been opposed to George H. W. Bush's invasion of Iraq in Desert Storm. Ecevit, who was the first to expose the existence of NATO's Gladio "stay-behind" networks in Europe, which included Turkey's own Ergenekon network, died in 2006 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. Ecevit died at Gülhane Military Hospital in Ankara after being placed into a medically-induced coma.</div>
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