One of the most sadly comical aspects of the Obama Administration and the rather dense liberal types that put their hopes for future change in them, is how it is pretended that The Obamas are of, AND FOR, the people. And many brainwashed Americans even believe that!!!????? However, if so, why does this Administration's bosses spend so much money like this when they just travel a night or two? Joe Biden's Paris Hotel Cost $585,000 For One-Night Vice Presidential Stay And the one night in Paris was no aberration, it seems. Here, according to this Huffington Post news item, was just how much Biden spent in London previously! ... $459,338.65 for one night! Incredible! And these are just the costs for the Hotel use!
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US-made counterrevolution in Libya leads to civil war in Mali and the establishment of a ‘Tuareg Homeland’
Oops! The law of unintended consequences in US foreign policy continues to have its effects on the world. Those politician fat cats in D.C. wanted Moammar Gadhafi out of power in Libya and got that after the brutal torture murder of that head of state, but did the Obama Administration calculate on the current events in Mali that followed? I rather doubt that they did. ...See Gaddafi's influence in Mali's coup and Mali's Tuareg separatist rebels have declared an end to military operations, a statement on their website says. These former fighters FOR Gadhafi now have power in the northern regions of Mali and have declared a 'Tuareg Homeland'. It is doubtful that the Europeans and the US are too delighted with this new nationalist movement though. The fighting is certain to continue and spread throughout the region yet more.
Barack Obama to torturers- ‘You will not be prosecuted’
Obama lets CIA Interrogators Off The Hook
Obama to bankers, ‘I’m saving you from the pitchforks!’
Well there you have it from the horse's mouth, Obama is not trying to save you, me, and all the other poverty stricken louts! He's trying to save the bankers from us coming at them with pitchforks! He's willing to give them trillions of $$$, too, to help them out. Money that the louts will eventually be paying off for the bankers. See Inside the Obama-Bank CEO Meeting Obama laughed along with the rest of the CEOs, before listening to Lewis get to his point: he wants to pay back Troubled Asset Relief Program funds. "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks," Obama said. Protecting thieves is a criminal act, Mr. President. Helping drive the get away car is, too. But in this case, it is the President of the US and US bank officials driving the car! This is the greatest bank robbery in history and the liberal Democrats are letting them get away with it, too. They just don't seem to have the smarts to figure out what's going on? And they're too busy pointing fingers at others as they're led by their noses!
Obama talks of lowering the deficit even as he does the opposite
Obama sure knows how to talk out of both sides of his mouth at once! And that's exactly what makes him and the Democratic Party so dangerous to the American people. With the Republican Party of Open Violence everybody knows what's coming down, but with the Democrats it's quite different. Here's the latest Obama-con as the mass media hits us with... Obama Seeks to Halve Deficit to Half Trillion Per Year by 2013 all timed to hit us with headlines across the nation in the corporate dailies' Sunday issues today. So how is Obama, with as corporate loaded a Cabinet as ever was, going to reverse course from his new give outs to the corporate big guys, and now tax them as he says he will? How is he going to cut the military spending even as he sends 17,000 or so new troops into Afghanistan? How is he going to tax corproations more even as he gives out more tax refunds to everybody right away? Barack Obama surely is the guy who can talk out both sides of his mouth at one and the same time, isn't he? It's amazing! Slick Willie and his triangulation abacus had nothing ever at all that the duo team of Barack and Hillary we now are stuck with for 4 years can't match and even double in shenanigans. We should all be very concerned with this double talk. Barack is setting the deck for a ruling class attack on what the rich call 'entitlements', but what we know as social programs... programs like Social Security... for just one example. Yes, General Barack is not going to cut the real billion ton gorilla entitlement program that is known as the US military, but is going to go after social programs, even as he double talks to us about expanding them! We are being scammed. The Democratic Party with Barack Obama at the helm might just be running the biggest ponzi scheme of them all on the American public? How does it all work? Well just study the cartoon picture that leads this commentary off. Say one thing and do another.
Welfare for the rich at GM, Ford, and Chrysler as they cut jobs?
US car giants seek $21bn funding. That would bring them close to $40 billion handed out to them by the Bush-Obama team if they succeed! And Obama, the No Change President, will make them do a few tricks to get their new billions, but that's about it. Who can actually think that a top dog welfare scheme like this which will eventually be paid for by the newly unemployed taxpayer poor is something called a 'stimulus package'? Hey! A liberal Democrat would!
Obama’s coverups
Obama is covering up for George Bush's Administration use of torture as policy. He wants to have it both ways, first claiming that he is changing policy, then in engaging in the old policies of 'rendition' and coverup of torture of POWs held by the US military. But there is yet another coverup underway, and that is how Obama is covering up for George Bush's illegal support for the illegal actions of Israel in Gaza and elsewhere (remember Lebanon?). He may want to repeat the same under his own Administration? From MSNBC: Obama administration defending Bush secrets. You see, Obama's Administration is all about coverups and trying to put a new face on the same old policies of the Republican Party, whether it be with his domestic or his foreign policies. Pretending to leave Iraq yet staying there. Pretending to stop US government made torture, yet continuing to engage in all the activities that use it (occupations of Afghanistan, attacks on Pakistan, continued worship of the military-industrial complex's God GWOT). Obama is clearly one of the most duplicitous presidents the US has ever had. He is continuing the Federal Government give away's to the corporate world, too. And Number One on Obama's coverup foreign agenda is continued coverup of what the Israeli game plan is all about, simply because it is the US government game plan also. Obama is continuing Cheney's and the neocon's program of trying to restructure the entire Middle East into a more compliant region for continued US domination and control of the peoples and the natural resources of the region. Oil is still the name of the game and Israel is still the US bulldog enforcer. Obama needs to cover for Israel's crimes since he plans to use their crimes to help further the US government's own crimes. The US under Barack Obama is firmly on the side of Israel's ethnic cleansing program in both Israel proper and in the Occupied Territories, and these are Obama's coverups of the Bush Administration as much as how he is trying to coverup for Bush by keeping torture records secret, keeping executive privilege intact, and so on. There is no change beyond the superficial change of faces and parties in the White House. Military-industrial war games shall continue and Barack will now direct them. Just don't buy these Obama coverups if you want real change to ever occur? Don't let him coverup for the use of torture nor the use of Israel's military machine.
US ‘suppressing torture evidence’ says top British government official
The Pentagon has been suppressing the press. 'Mr Davis said a High Court ruling, which pointed to complicity by the UK and US authorities in his torture, was prevented from being published after the US put pressure on the UK.' Tory MP demands torture statement be made against the British Labor government's support of US torture, and thus against the US government's use of torture, also. This is a welcome development as the Obama government has decided to continue rendition flights to have Pentagon held POWs tortured in other countries for the US government. MP David Davis is throwing a thorn in the side of the cover-up underway to help try to save the Bush Klan from prosecution. Obama wants to renounce the use of torture and continue to use it more clandestinely. We should not allow him to get away with this maneuvering. That is a photo of Binyam Mohamed, the man who was tortured at Guantanamo by the US.
Corrupt Donkey pounds the Corrupt Elephant
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tom Daschle collected nearly a quarter of a million dollars in fees in the last two years speaking to leaders of the industry President Barack Obama wants him to reform as the administration's health secretary. Daschle earned $220,000 from health care industry And then there's that other Barack Obama appointed ruler and tax cheater caught named Timothy Geithner, the tax code's poster boy, as an LA Times opinion piece calls him. Democratic Party corruption rises to the top under Obama! The National Rifle Association and Republican Party corruption of the Bush Klan was ahead of Tom Daschle in the matchup in the past, but Tom is now once again pounding away at the elephants! We are but the mere spectators and well taxed at this point of the contest, in who is the most corrupt, Donkey or Elephant? Do we have a winner? Tom? Are you OK?
Barack Obama’s billionaire backers
Nothing anybody will say will change the minds today of any of those religious pilgrims going to the Inauguration Day ceremonies in Washington and elsewhere. But who's really calling the shots for Obama? Barack Obama's billionaire backers A day of change in America? Hardly. America still is a deeply divided caste society.
Barack gives Bank of America ‘overdraft protection’ as he bankrupts the US public
The Republicans gave the banks hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars, but that was not enough. Barack, instead of spending money to help house the homeless, institute universal medical coverage, or better Social Security for the elderly and incapacitated, thinks Bank of America's corporate owners need yet more of your tax monies! What a wild CHANGE in thinking here! He brings us visions of Barack Lincoln, freeing the corporate class from all responsibilities! Poor slaves. I got 'overdraft protection' from Bank of America, and I went over about $2 on a Safeway debit card purchase with them. They charged me over $100 before I even knew about it. I had told them I didn't want their 'protection', but they had given me it anyway. So I closed out with them, Bank of America not even having any local banks in the area. Now they call me twice a day with a recorded message and have screwed with my credit rating. That's my overdraft protection' plan from them.... phone harassment. If somebody came and knocked repeatedly twice a day unsolicited on my front door, the police would go get them for this abuse. But Bank of America can bombard me with computerized phone calls 14 times a week, and nobody calls that a crime, except for me. The bastards. Why doesn't Barack Obama give me 'overdraft protection' from the Bank of America criminals? Bank of America though has been given much better and real overdraft protection by their cronies, Barack and Dubya, the DP and RP. Little accounting error? Then Dubya and Barack are stumbling all over themselves to rush multiple tens of billions to Bank of America to fix their small little banking 'error'! They could actually nationalize the damn Bank of America and that would be fine by me. Hey, why doesn't our government do just exactly that? Nationalizing is what they do with many small folk who go to jail if they do not pay off money they steal from others through their 'bad investments'. Heck, the cops never even give small crooks the option to return that money, it's simply you have been 'nationalized' and now you spend the next 20 years with us! Where's the respect for small time crooks who are merely emulating the Bank Of America Big Boys with their financial thefts? The 'law' is rather strange in America... Rob little and you are a Bad Boy. Rob BIG, and the government starts throwing other people's money at you! Bank of America bail-out agreed I didn't agree, did you agree? You did if you voted for Barack Obama, Mr. and Mrs. DP 'Liberal'. You're always being
Obama to recycle militarism of the Clinton regime
Hillary Clinton Stresses 'Cooperative Engagement,' 'Smart Power' This supposed 'smart power' that Obama's Hillary will produce in reality is the same Bush-Lite government militarism that Bill Clinton used in his 8 year regime. It produced the set-up for Dubya's invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan which was the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis through economic warfare, the introduction of the US encirclement of Russia and it's geopolitical defeat in the Balkans, and last but not least, it produced the Rwandan genocide. 'Smart Power'? No, it is just more of the same stupidity of a US military-industrial-governmental complex gone completely mad. No CHANGE here, Barack Baby!
The liberal myth of Barack the Impotent
Barack isn't president yet, Barack is just one man, Israel is handing Barack a fait accompli, Barack can't buck The Establishment, Oh Poor Barack the Impotent! What can the poor man do? According to Rasmussen Americans (are) Closely Divided Over Israel’s Gaza Attacks. However, these are not just 'Israel's Gaza Attacks, now are they? They are America's Gaza Attacks, America's Attacks on Hamas, America's Attacks on the Palestinians, and that damn Barack Obama is America's Commander in Chief, now as much as in 2 weeks. So why all this myth making about Barack the Impotent? It is simply that American liberals don't want to admit that they voted this in. Tonight I sat at a talk and discussion about the Israeli destruction of Gaza with 14 others, all who voted for Barack the Impotent. They were talking about in 2 weeks the 'regime change' supposedly going to occur. What regime change I asked? There is no regime change taking place in 2 weeks. You are making it all up as you go, since this is the same 'bipartisan' group of gangsters as before. Let's not talk about regime change when, in fact, there is none. How long are American liberals going to play stupid like this? Your guess is as good as mine? The myth gets further defined as Barack the knowledgeable and Decent, Barack the Educated Man of the World. But when it comes to Barack the Man with a Penis; go figure? He don't have one and is Barack the Impotent now, or all at least for 2 weeks more. Then The Penis of Barack will rise like Jesus Christ after Crucifixion, I guess? Your guess is as good as mine? Until then, Barack can't do it! What is it with Americans who want to individualize a Machine of Little ... well you know what I mean... who want to indivualize a group of Ivy League-Chicago School Politician Hacksters like the Barack crowd is? Air Force Air Head Cadets! Locked in Lockheed Shits! Barack is the Liberal Impotent made into a Deity of Change here! Or can he? ....the myth goes on and on and on. Can he? Barack, the He Really Wants to Do-Right Guy, Barack the Community Organizer, Barack the Man of Rainbow Color, Barack the Gentle Giant surrounded by Treacherous Dwarfs! Barack the Noble, Barack the Man of One? Good grief, the Liberal Community can give one the Heebe Jeebies. Meanwhile, the rest of the world has to put up with the suffering America's moronic pseudo liberal communities help deliver to them. God Bless.... Well God Bless Anybody but US!
Barack and Dubya walk hand in hand
WELL, YES HE IS NOW... He is co- Commander in Chief. It should be becoming increasingly clear to the public by now that both Dubya and Barack have the same programs to 'rescue the economy' through increasing government debt, 'surging' in Afghanistan, and green lighting Israel's slaughter in Gaza. Did I mention that they both plan to stay in Iraq, though after the inauguration it will be Barack totally in command of this operation? Does anybody seriously still believe that Barack is somehow against keeping Iraq an occupied country with US troops? Really? Then what kind of dope are you are on would be my question to you? U.S. could be facing debt 'time bomb' this year is the Barack plan for 'change', as Obama sugar coats the Democrats plan to bailout the corporate elites with a shallow promise to supposedly create 3,000,000 jobs. Sure you will, Barack, and you will throw the US government into bankruptcy along with your Republican and your Clintonite buddies screwing us, the working public, over royal. It's clear who your real friends are, and it ain't us. And the con game that Barack is playing about not being in office yet with an inability to change US government policy towards Israel's invasion of Gaza is totally phony. Shoot! Barack and his Buddies are already plotting out space wars with China in the years ahead even. Obama Moves to Counter China With Pentagon-NASA Link (Update1) It's just pure gullibility on the part of anybody that actually believes that Obama is not able to intervene in regards to Israel bombing and invading Gaza. The same type of gullibility that made some folk think that Dennis Kucinich was some sort of DP Golden Boy, too. Not much a menace to the gun toting Barack-Hillary group at the top of the party is Dennis. He can't even open his mouth having caught the same bug that must be ailing Barack on this matter. And Bush and Obama are walking hand in hand on the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, continuing US torture of POWs, and threatening the Russians, too. Surprising isn't it, that President Mr. BIG CHANGE has not muttered one word about ending official US government policy of torturing its POWs? He plans merely to cover it up and pretend otherwise. Barack is as much war without end as the Republicans he is now copying like a parrot for. Don't get it wrong. Obama will enter into office with a virtual bombardment of meaningless 'change' rhetoric, since that is his forte. He's good at saying nothing real while doing a shuffle. You can continue to fall for it if you want, but think how stupid you will feel down the line? Your only excuse
The Barack Plan to re-brand and re-market US occupation of Iraq
Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation There in the title to his commentary, Jeremy Scahill puts it quite simple for people to understand. Of course, there are plenty of people who simply do not want to understand The Barack Plan at all, because those people invested a lot of themselves in justifying their vote for Barack Obama. They prefer to be pretend 'counsellors' for the President instead of actually admitting what his true plan for Iraq actually is, a re-marketing of the occupation of that country to the American people. This re-branding and re-marketing of the war has already been done time and time again. It is the Republican agenda, too. Barack Obama and his Democratic Party war machine hope that with this rebranding of war for the more liberal minded out there in the American community, that the war and occupation of Iraq PLUS all the other warmaking of the Pentagon can simply continue on track.
Barack’s D.C. Fortress-America bunker, the Obama Nation
Barack has been busy constructing his new, D.C. Fortress-America bunker. The going is tough because Captain Dubya and his hangmen botched the job, and the new bunker will have to be heavily fortified, buried deep in bullshit, and covered with the smoke screen of smarm. He needs 'advice' and lots of it, too. How best to keep the 'terrorist' bunker buster bombs (TRUTH) from taking it down at the soonest opportunity? Turn to cronies, Democratic Party bipartisan and wide, and have their bodies, soulless and all, front the bunker thick and grim. Here is the scene as Chris Floyd describes it... 'Barack Obama's new "national security team" is a grim conglomeration of war criminals, warmongers and apologists for torture and empire who have been praised justly by some right wingers as a continuation and validation of the Bush Regime's foreign policy.' He goes on to paint the picture bleaker... Guts, Goo and Obama's Imperial Dream Meanwhile, the US 'Peace'crats community centers cover up Barack's D.C. Fortress-America bunker with their 'hope'. They actually think that Barack Obama is about to trick everybody out but themselves, the 'Progressives', and angle sharply to the Left sometime soon! Leaving Gates, Hillary, and all the others feeling betrayed, no doubt? LOL...... The bunker full of Right Wing thugs is being constructed by General Obama because he is planning an Offensive, make no doubt about that at all. Oh? You still doubt it? You planning to give Barack the benefit of your doubt, no doubt? How sweeeet........ A lot rides on Barack's Bunker. The US ruling class has high hopes on his newly assembled team in his newly rebuild and remodeled Fortress-America bunker, the Obama Nation. Can he carry out the Republican agenda now without the fireworks of gliberal 'Peace'crat criticisms and gliberish? What's that sound out there? Is it the sound of silence still? Or is it a bunker busting bomb of 'terrorist' venom (TRUTH)? So far, I hear mainly silence. Oh the shock!!!!!! Silence....... What an Obama Nation!
Retaining Gates slam dunks the deluded USA liberals
Oh those poor deluded liberals! All that 'hope' for 'change' and look what it got them? Obama asks Gates to stay at Pentagon No talk of getting out of Iraq now, and the Democratic Party 'Peace'crats simply don't have a Plan B beyond turning out the vote again and again for DP politicians who always give them the shaft once they are elected. No talk of a rejection of the Bush Administration's criminality and use of torture from Barack. He just rubber stamped it all OK with his choice of Robert Gates being allowed to continue in the position provided for him by Dubya. No change at all. You can shoot down rapproachement with the Russians, too, since it simply was no fluke when Georgia was prompted to attack the Ossetian allies of Russia. The Democrats were on-board all along with the Republican Administration initiated aggression. Hello, New Cold War. What is left for the Democratic Party liberals to hang onto now? Sure, they can continue to play the fools (though they do not play the fool so much as they just simply are fools), and most will continue to look for some sort of sugar coating on the policies of the Democratic Party Administration, but there is none really. The chumps that told us to vote Democratic Party like it was some sort of religion of theirs will simply be inactive, inactive, inactive in the weeks and months ahead. They have nothing really much left to say. This was all so easy to see ahead of time, but the 'Peace'crats don't want to stand out of the American crowd, and actually denounce US foreign policy in an effective manner. They wanted to just go out and vote even though the voting is rigged to keep power in power. The voting is rigged to just rotate back and forth between the Democrats and Republicans, both of which do mostly the exact same things. The US Left needs to just say goodbye to the duplicitous intellectual leaders that now control the Antiwar Movement. It's time to say goodbye to the United for Justice and Peace Democrats and build an effective Antiwar Movement that will build large and continual national mobilizations against The War that just keeps on going, and going, and going. I told you so. Hate me for that if you want? Voting when The System has rigged the vote before hand, is simply not really voting. It takes action to do that, and action that is outside of electorialist play acting.
‘Change’ that isn’t change: Cronyism trumps empty rhetoric of Obama
Promises of 'change' empty of all real content followed by cronyist selections of long time Democratic Party hacks to replace the Republican hacks of the last 8 years. Yes, it is change of a sort. We will no longer have the direct thuggishness of the likes of Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, and Cheney in high office to focus on as targets against America's ruling class viciousness. It's back to the Slick Willie model of reactionary policies and talking heads. But is back to the Clintonist model of imperial rule 'CHANGE'? The latest empty rhetoric of Obama is focused on the promise of a 'jobs program', and is designed to take our minds off the hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars of give-aways to the biggest corporations the Democratic Party is underwriting with government funds. Obama will introduce his new economic leadership team Monday, a key step toward enacting a huge new economic recovery plan that aims to save or create 2.5 million jobs over the next two years Truth be told, this 'jobs program' sounds and looks like more of the Republican Party same, just couched in a different sales pitch. Obama's earliest measures have been to load the new Administration with long term Illinois political hacks and tag alongs of Obama, pairing them up with old Clinton regime standbys. It's not a pretty picture, and when the inevitable failures of the DP Big Federal Government give-aways fail to revive the Pentagon welfare based US capitalist model, the populace of our country will certainly be turned back towards the Republicans who will become labeled by the corporate media as being the future 'change'. vehicles Meanwhile... the Obama game is starting! It's the change without change team at work!
Barack’s Rahmbo is not an Arab who will be mopping floors at the White House
Poor Rahmbo! Here he is and he's already having trouble covering up the arrogant, asshole, know-it-all smugness on his thuggish face, and his dad goes and runs his mouth. Well what can you expect? These terrorists are proud when their sons grow up and carry on in the family tradition (to paraphrase Hank Williams Jr.)! What did Dear Old Dad say? "Obviously he'll influence the president to be pro-Israel. Why wouldn't he? What is he, an Arab? He's not going to be mopping floors at the White House." No indeed! That's for Blacks and Arabs to do, is it not? Now look what you've done to your son, Rahmbo, Dad! There's only one thing he can do for your discourteously overt racism. He must 'apologize'. Obama aide apologises to US-Arabs We now all feel so much better about the new, but old, grouping around Barack Obama. With Gates and Hillary coming on board, we'll have perfection! Barack can spend a little more time in picking the new White House dog, and cute an lovable he will be, no doubt!