Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Obama's first 100 days

In his first 100 days, Obama has excused torture, opposed habeas corpus, and demanded more secret government. He has kept Bush’s gulag intact and at least 17,000 prisoners beyond the reach of justice. On April 24, his lawyers won an appeal that ruled Guantanamo prisoners were not "persons" and therefore had no right not to be tortured. His national intelligence director, Adm. Dennis Blair, says he believes torture works. One of his senior officials in Latin America is accused of covering up the torture of an American nun in Guatemala; another is a Pinochet apologist. As Daniel Ellsberg has pointed out, America experienced a military coup under Bush, whose secretary of "defense," Robert Gates, along with the same warmaking officials, have been retained by Obama.

23 comments:

  1. OBAMA - THE HIGHEST STAGE OF NEOCOLONIALISM 
    http://notinhisname.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-11_cy-2008_m-11_d-09_y-2008_o-0.html

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  2. obama totally sucks...i never fell for him...never...i got radical sh*t going on here...that means i see the sh*t
     
    v and me are a twin act...totally radical...

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  3. btw. where is joe? he had an idea to create a story of a lost puppy in gaza, caught in limbo, under isreali bombing. it will convince the american public that israel is bad...

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  4. oh and please stop moaning and whinging. this blog has too much of that. moaning and whinging about everything, you know angry stood me up...my boyfriend is a jerk type of thing. it is so beneath us the readers to read such stuff. keep it real blogettes, or you'll lose me as a reader...you don't want that to happen.

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  5. listen, if you are having family problems or are feeling misunderstood, don't bring it to the blog. it is soooo unprofessional. don't you want to be taken seriously?

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  6. v, i love your music. it is happening and it gonna break down the system...

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  7. Go Obama Messiah!
     
    Obama has banned torture. The Bush administration authorized the torture of three people, but insisted it had the right to torture others. Obama has overturned that. Gates is awesome!

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  8. Where is that "potty-mouth" wingnut that comments here from time to time?  The apologist for US-style free market capitalism?  He needs to read this:
     
    Emmanuel Saez, 36, a public economics expert teaching at the University of California at Berkeley, was awarded the 2009 John Bates Clark Medal last week. Nobody has done more to describe the broad changes in income distribution in the United States that have taken place during the last ninety years.     His most striking finding has been to confirm the widespread intuition that income inequality has been increasing – that one of the key regularities of post-World War II economics had fallen apart.  It was in 1955 that Simon Kuznets, then of the Johns Hopkins University, observed that  inequality in developing countries tended to describe an “inverted-U,” rising substantially for a time as workers moved from farms into industrial cites, then steadily diminishing as output grew and gains from increased productivity were more evenly distributed.  Saez demonstrated that the “U” had decisively turned right-side up – that inequality has been rising steadily for thirty years instead of falling. Working backwards from tax data to infer household income back to 1913, when the income tax was established (modern government income surveys came into being only in 1960), he found that families making up the top ten percentile of the income distribution had been steadily increasing their share of all income since the 1970s.  This best off decile of earners had one heyday in the “Roaring 1920s,” when their share reached nearly 45 percent of national income.  There they remained until about 1940, when norms associated with the conduct of World War II apparently knocked them down to around 33 percent of the total. Their share remained remarkably stable for the next three decades, at around a third of national income, until the mid-1970s.  Then the top decile’s share began to climb again, hitting 49.7 of national income in 2006, higher than any year since 1917 and surpassing its level in 1928, Saez found. It took $104,700 in market income for a family to make the top 10 percent in 2006.

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  9. Anand, you stuid asshole, if you do not stop the 3 peerson bullshit I am going to appoint you for extraordinary rendition, jackass

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  10. Rinse - repeat -
     
    Costa, why don't you stop the convoluted bullshit. Do you want to know the difference between this and your idiotic comments? At least they announce in the post it is a personal matter, you post jackass comments on dead serious posts - that is the difference. Now shut up

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  11. Now this fetid "market" is trying to boost this Obama clown no matter what the factors indicate, this is getting REALLY old. He is their guy, and they do not want the golden egg goose shot

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  12. <span>"Investors take weak GDP report in stride and opt to recharge the recent advance after two days down."</span>
     
    http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/29/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm?postversion=2009042910
     
    This is a rally "stage" alright...

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  13. I'll re-post this hear, just so my meaning is clear at whom this is directed:
     
    I intend to seize my enemies by the throat and squeeze until they beg forgiveness.  Then they will cower before me and repent for their transgressions.  If they do not satisfy my thirst for revenge then I shall smite them verily and the blood of their ancestors shall turn to salt and poison their lands.  All who have trespassed upon the sanctity of my brethren shall know of horror and deep regret, for in my wake shall be left a trail of decimation that shall be testament to my wrath and righteousness.

    Repent, sinners unto me.  No god before you can redeem your folly.  A reckoning is nigh.

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  14. Latest from Jim Willie:
     
    <span style="color: black;">The <span>USGovt</span> is preparing a military response to the coming social chaos.</span><span style="color: black;"> The threat of social meltdown and chaos is so great that a domestic law enforcement arm of the <span>USMilitary</span> has been created to deal with unprecedented wave of violence and disorder. The <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Army Times</span> call it the Consequence Management Response Force. A new report by the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute states flatly the <span>USMilitary</span> must prepare for ‘a violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States’ that could be provoked by ‘unforeseen economic collapse’ or ‘loss of functioning political and legal order.’ Already, in December 2008 over 20 thousand Army Brigade troops from Iraq were returning stateside to deal with domestic emergencies. Since then, the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Army Times</span> has broken the story that the domestic emergency army unit has been increased to 80 thousand, now trained and stationed in Georgia (capital Atlanta, not confused with nation in West Asia). In December, the managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn of the Intl Monetary Fund warned of riots and turbulence sweeping through Western countries as households <span>become</span> frustrated with credit constraints and rampant unemployment. Such riots have already caused the government of Iceland to fall and triggered riots in Greece. Last week, the US Homeland Security has warned that returning troops from the Iraq War might run the risk of reverting to extremists. Many might become distraught and frustrated by loss of home, loss of job, loss of wife, loss of family, and degradation of their neighborhoods, with little hope of securing gainful employment or winning approval of either a car loan or home loan. See the disturbing article entitled <span style="text-decoration: underline;">“Economic Collapse to Trigger Social Pandemonium”</span> that leaked its way onto public websites (CLICK HERE).</span>

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  15. Also in light of -
     
    ECONOMY FALLS MORE THAN EXPECTED (ACTUALLY WORSE THAN THESE NUMBERS) 
    These bastards think they can continue to seperate the real economy from this bogus nonsense -
     
    http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/29/news/economy/gdp/index.htm?postversion=2009042910

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  16. Thanks to NAFTA an so-called "free trade", Mexicans are now dying in droves. The epicenter of the swine flu has finally been located at La Gloria (jeeez, what an irony!), a little town North of Mexico City where a series of pig farms belonging to a US corporation, have been operating there for the past 15 years. This corporation decided to move to Mexico after it was heavily fined in the US for violating all safety codes. In Mexico de US corporation, which has enjoyed all the perks and privileges granted to foreign investors under the NAFTA agreement,  has been dumping all sorts of repugnat waste in open air and polluting the water table in the area. Eventually this generated a mutating virus that recombines human, bird and pig genetic material in the most lethal way imaginable. Yesterday, I saw a Gringo reporter interviewing people in Mexico City and asking them where they though the disease had emerged for the first time. Around twenty individuals randomly interviewed said, without hesitation or variation, "it came from the US". I thought it was probably the result of one of those typical disinformation campaings customarily put forward by Mexican authorities when facing any crisis. Now I'm thinking that maybe Mexican people know better, after having experienced so much pain coming from North of the border over more than 200 years. No wonder Mexicans have this say: "Poor Mexico, so far away from God, and so close to the USA".

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  17. Great article! Thanks Maracatú.

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    <span>"Then, most revealingly, the aspect of the story which has been largely ignored by major media, they reported, ‘Residents believed the outbreak had been caused by contamination from pig breeding farms located in the area. They believed that the farms, operated by Granjas Carroll, polluted the atmosphere and local water bodies, which in turn led to the disease outbreak. According to residents, the company denied responsibility for the outbreak and attributed the cases to "flu." However, a municipal health official stated that preliminary investigations indicated that the disease vector was a type of fly that reproduces in pig waste and that the outbreak was linked to the pig farms.’4"</span>
     
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13408

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  19. The wingnut will say - he's French, ergo anti-American, probably a commie.

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  20. http://www.dailymotion.com/DEATHINKING/video/xv97g_public-enemy-1_people

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  21. If you get a chance, everyone should look at Fenian's site -
     
    http://fenian-fenianrising.blogspot.com/
     
    If you want the real dirty lowdown on what is going on

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  22. I like fenian. I bookmarked his site a while ago. But he doesn't update very often. Am I wrong?
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