Obama Quietly Backing Congressional Moves on Iran Sanctions
Jason Ditz | AntiWar.com Though officials in the Obama Administration have been publicly neutral about the new round of sanctions against Iran moving its may through the House and Senate, the administration is quietly supporting the efforts, despite the deleterious affect they may have on negotiations. Iran is in the process of negotiating with the P5+1 on a draft deal for third [...]
Fall Of The Republic: Millions Of People Worldwide Take The Red Pill
Paul Joseph Watson | InfoWars.com Fall Of The Republic has exploded onto the Internet as millions of people worldwide take the red pill and discover the antidote to the establishment’s lies about what caused the financial collapse and their agenda to deceptively claim that empowering the very culprits of the crime will solve the problem, [...]
Obama signs bills for record Pentagon, Homeland Security spending
Patrick Martin |wsws.org In a ceremony Wednesday, US President Barack Obama signed legislation authorizing the largest ever military budget, a gargantuan $680 billion for the Pentagon, including $130 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On Thursday, he signed a spending bill funneling another $44 billion into the Department of Homeland Security, to strengthen [...]
The Cover-Up Continues
Editorial | NYTimes.com The Obama administration has clung for so long to the Bush administration’s expansive claims of national security and executive power that it is in danger of turning President George W. Bush’s cover-up of abuses committed in the name of fighting terrorism into President Barack Obama’s cover-up. We have had recent reminders of [...]
First Daughters Not Vaccinated Against H1N1
Anne Marie Riha | Whithouse.blogs.foxnews.com President Obama’s school age daughters have not been vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the vaccine is not available to them based on their risk. The Centers for Disease Control recommend that children ages 6 months through 18 years of age receive a [...]
Peace Prize Anyone? Obama quietly deploying 13,000 more US troops to Afghanistan
Move is separate from Nato commander General Stanley McChrystal’s request to increase troop levels Ewen MacAskil | Guardian.co.uk President Barack Obama is quietly deploying an extra 13,000 troops to Afghanistan, an unannounced move that is separate from a request by the US commander in the country for even more reinforcements. The extra 13,000 is part [...]
UPDATE 1-PIMCO CEO sees no return to pre-crisis system
* Weaker U.S. dollar is part of global rebalancing * Certain global currencies will overappreciate (Updates with comments on currencies, emerging markets) Pav Jordan and Wojtek Dabrowski | Reuters.com TORONTO, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Mohamed El-Erian, the chief executive of bond giant PIMCO, said on Friday the global economic system will not likely reset to [...]
Obama Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski:”Its easier to kill a million people than it is to control them” Speech to British Elite in November 17, 2008
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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” Nobel Peace Prize nominations are due by Feb 1st – two weeks after he took office. The commander-in-chief of a country that has is involved in 3 major wars whose policy was/is to escalate and expand these wars gets a peace prize? Iran?… [...]
Michel Chossudovsky on the Banker Bailouts
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Afghanistan: Where Empires Go to Die
Dahr Jamil | GlobalResearch.ca On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters. Genghis Khan [...]
Obama Backs Extending Patriot Act Spy Provisions
David Kravets | Wired.com Obama administration has told Congress it supports renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act due to expire at year’s end, measures making it easier for the government to spy within the United States. In a letter to Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the [...]
Obama supports extending Patriot Act
Joe Palazzolo | MainJustice.com The Obama administration has blessed three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act that expand the government’s reach in counter-terrorism investigations. In a Sept. 14 letter to lawmakers, Assistant Attorney General Ron Weich said the Justice Department supports the use of roving wiretaps, the authority to access business records and the ability [...]
Obama says U.S. must renew fight against al Qaeda
Ross Colvin | Reuters | Yahoo.com President Barack Obama sought to rally Americans behind the war in Afghanistan on the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States as polls show faltering public support for the conflict. “Let us renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and plot against [...]
Charlie Sheen Requests Meeting With Obama Over 9/11 Cover-Up
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com Actor and television star Charlie Sheen has publicly requested a meeting with President Barack Obama to urge him to reopen the official investigation into 9/11 in light of the fact that the majority of the 9/11 Commission members have now publicly gone on record to express their conviction that the government [...]
Twenty Minutes With The President
Charlie Sheen | PrisonPlanet.com I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with our 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, while he was out promoting his health care reform initiative. I requested 30 minutes given the scope and detail of my inquiry; they said I could have 20. Twenty minutes, 1200 [...]
Obama White House To Harvest Personal Data From Social Networking Websites
Ken Bohem | NLPC.org NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites [...]
As Obama Golfs with UBS CEO Days After Firm Avoids Criminal Prosecution, UBS Whistleblower Given 40-Month Jail Term
DemocracyNow.org Video link from Democracy Now On the first day of his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, President Obama spent five hours golfing with UBS executive Robert Wolf, an early financial backer of Obama’s presidential campaign. As the pair teed off, another UBS banker, Bradley Birkenfeld, had just been handed a forty-month prison sentence after pleading [...]
Bush’s Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept
Ellen Nakashima | WashingtonPost.com The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search — without suspicion of wrongdoing — the contents of a traveler’s laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversight of such inspections. The policy, disclosed Thursday in a pair of Department [...]
