July 19th, 2010
You won't believe what Obama's cooking up now...
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The White House has named the Obamas' personal Chicago cook as 'Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives.'..."It's no joke, even though it sounds like a bad one. The Chicago chef's rapid ascension has been kept under the radar for the last month," Judicial Watch said. "Sam Kass went from being a 20-something, Windy City gourmet cook – privately paid by the Obamas to feed them – to big-time White House adviser in a matter of months," the report said. But it makes sense, the report said, since Michelle Obama has claimed that childhood obesity is a threat to "national security."
April 1st, 2010
Obama Puts Pesticide Pusher in Charge of Agricultural Trade Relations
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As undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Siddiqui oversaw the development of the first national organic labeling standards, which allowed sewage sludge-fertilized, genetically modified, and irradiated food to be labeled as organic before public outcry forced more stringent standards.
March 28th, 2010
Ron Paul “We Have Only One Party! And They Fight Over Power & Influence!
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Video.
November 5th, 2009
Health Care Deceit
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As an Illinois State Senator, Barack Obama enthusiastically called for single payer health care. He said he wanted a system with “everybody in, nobody out.” Now that the very same Barack Obama is president of the United States, single payer is nowhere to be seen on his agenda. The words of the ambitious politician are inconsistent with his actions now that he is the president.
August 25th, 2009
Victory on preventive detention law: in context
Phony Left/Right Paradigm
Obama has now changed his mind about seeking a new law, and instead will continue to detain Terrorism suspects without charges under the current system (the one used by Bush/Cheney as well)...
August 16th, 2009
Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma
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A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-ranging deal that both parties have been denying over the past week. It says the White House agreed to oppose any congressional efforts to use the government's leverage to bargain for lower drug prices or import drugs from Canada -- and also agreed not to pursue Medicare rebates or shift some drugs from Medicare Part B to Medicare Part D, which would cost Big Pharma billions in reduced reimbursements.
August 6th, 2009
Obama approval rating sinks to 50%: poll
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The poll of 2,409 registered voters nationwide conducted July 27 to August 3 found they disapproved 49-45 percent of the way Obama was handling the economy, and disapproved 52-39 percent on his handling of health care, but approved 52-38 percent of his foreign policy.
July 21st, 2009
Obama 'transparency' is called into question
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The report came as critics of the administration say that the White House has fallen short of its promises to run a more open government than had other administrations. Among other areas, the critics cite the president's conduct of the health care debate, which has including closed-door White House meetings with powerful interest groups.
July 10th, 2009
Obama campaign vow of public debate on health care fading
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Campaigning for president, Barack Obama said repeatedly that any overhaul of the health care system should be negotiated publicly and televised for all to see. Throughout this year's negotiations, however, the big deals have been struck in secret.
July 4th, 2009
US Marines locked in 'hell of a fight' with Taliban
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Nearly 4,000 Marines launched the operation Thursday in parts of the southern province of Helmand, suffering their first fatality in a pivotal test of President Barack Obama's aggressive new strategy against the Taliban.
June 29th, 2009
Obama calls for cuts in Medicare and Medicaid
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It is becoming increasingly clear that the essence of the administration’s health care policy, under the guise of universal coverage, is a downgrading of care for the majority of the population so as to cut health care costs for business and the government.
June 27th, 2009
White House drafts executive order to allow indefinite detentions
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The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.S uch an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war.
Obama Issues Signing Statement On War Spending Bill
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On Friday, President Obama signed a new war spending bill into law, but "not without taking a page from his predecessor and ignoring a few elements in the legislation," the Hill reports...President George W. Bush was heavily criticized for his use of signing statements, declaring he'd ignore some elements of legislation by invoking presidential prerogative...The Obama administration announced in the statement it would disregard provisions of the legislation that, among other things, would compel the Obama administration to pressure the World Bank to strengthen labor and environmental standards and require the Treasury department to report to Congress on the activities of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
June 25th, 2009
Obama Sides With Bush: No Rights for Bagram Prisoners
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In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The filing shocked human rights attorneys.
June 21st, 2009
In stark legal turnaround, Obama now resembles Bush
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President Barack Obama is morphing into George W. Bush, as administration attorneys repeatedly adopt the executive-authority and national-security rationales that their Republican predecessors preferred. "It's putting up a veritable wall around the White House, and it's so at odds with Obama's campaign commitment to more open government," said Anne Weismann, chief counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a legal watchdog group.
May 24th, 2009
First Principles ... or Why I Cannot Support Barack Obama
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In my opinion, the people who support Obama now are at least as bad as -- if not much worse than -- the people who supported Bush when he was doing the things that Obama is now continuing, and expanding.
April 24th, 2009
Obama Legal Team Seeks To Limit Defendents' Right To Not Be Questioned Without Lawyer
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The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overrule a 23 year-old decision that stopped police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer is present, the latest stance that has disappointed civil rights and civil liberties groups...While President Barack Obama has reversed many policies of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, the defendants' rights case is another stark example of the White House seeking to limit rather than expand rights.
April 20th, 2009
The Shill World Order: Pushers Of The False Left-Right Paradigm
PR/Propaganda
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Outside the political boundaries that seek to control dissent against the unconstitutional apparatuses of government, lies a group of independent people who have been attacked under the Bush administration as communist terrorists, and under Obama's as fascist racist. The people who propagate this fraud are millionaire media shills who push partisan propaganda to the benefit of the owners of both parties, the special interests, military industrial complex and banking oligarchy to name a few. This is extremely evident on the heels of the corporate media co-opting of the highly publicized Tea Party movement.
April 18th, 2009
An emerging progressive consensus on Obama's executive power and secrecy abuses
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It is becoming increasingly difficult for honest Obama supporters to dismiss away or even minimize these criticisms and, especially, to malign the motives of critics. After all, the Obama DOJ's embrace of many (though by no means all) of the most radical and extremist Bush/Cheney positions -- and the contradictions between Obama's campaign claims and his actions as President -- are now so glaring and severe that the harshest denunciations of Obama's actions are coming from those who, during the Bush years, were held up by liberals and by Obama supporters as the most trustworthy and praiseworthy authorities on these matters.
April 7th, 2009
Is Obama even more Dangerous than Bush?
Phony Left/Right Paradigm
An unthinking uncritical “Obamamania” among most of his supporters continues to prevail so far. This is dangerous for them, for President Obama and for all of us. Without critical analysis and pressure from his millions of supporters, Obama will stumble into disaster. We have carefully watched the new President’s first 100 days and we are appalled. We find that Obama has continued Bush policies affecting the abuses of Wall Street banks, and allowing Wall Street wrongdoers to manage our economy and the “recovery.”
New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ
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Beyond even the outrageously broad "state secrets" privilege invented by the Bush administration and now embraced fully by the Obama administration, the Obama DOJ has now invented a brand new claim of government immunity, one which literally asserts that the U.S. Government is free to intercept all of your communications (calls, emails and the like) ..it is hard to overstate how extremist is the "soverign immunity" argument which the Obama DOJ invented here in order to get rid of this lawsuit.
March 28th, 2009
Barack Obama to send 4,000 extra troops to Afghanistan
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Mr Obama will unveil the new strategy on Friday, 60 days after he ordered a review of the US policy in Afghanistan, where he criticiced his predecessor, George W. Bush, for allowing security to deteriorate.
March 27th, 2009
Clueless By Design
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To be honest, Obama, you lost me when you voted for the PATRIOT Act reauthorization in 2006. You lost me again when you voted for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) amendment in 2008. And you lost me every single time you voted for yet more war funding.
March 24th, 2009
EXCLUSIVE: New deal for Blackwater
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Days after the Baghdad government decided it no longer wanted the company then known as Blackwater in Iraq, the State Department signed a $22.2 million deal in February to keep the embattled contractor working there through most of the summer, contract records show.
March 20th, 2009
Obama gets mixed reviews on government ‘openness’
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He made his transparency pledge on his first full day in office. He also reversed the Bush administration’s restrictive policy on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), ordering all federal agencies and departments to adopt a presumption in favor of public disclosure.But several recent instances, including a signing statement that could be interpreted to diminish whistle-blower protections for executive branch employees, have raised concerns about the president’s ability to stick to his pledge.
February 26th, 2009
Obama Administration Supports Telco Spy Immunity
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The Obama administration vigorously defended congressional legislation late Wednesday that immunizes U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration's domestic spy program.
February 19th, 2009
Barack Obama Administration Continues US Military Global Dominance
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Barack Obama's election brought a moment of hope for many. However, the Obama administration is not calling for decreased military spending, or a reversal of US military global dominance. Instead, Obama retained Robert Gates, thus making Obama the first president from an opposing party, in US history, to keep in place the outgoing administrations' Secretary of Defense/War. Additionally, Obama is calling for an expanded war in Afghanistan and only minimal long-range reductions in Iraq.
February 18th, 2009
Obama Backs Off a Reversal on Secrets
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In a closely watched case involving rendition and torture, a lawyer for the Obama administration seemed to surprise a panel of federal appeals judges on Monday by pressing ahead with an argument for preserving state secrets originally developed by the Bush administration.
Obama's war on terror may resemble Bush's
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In little-noticed confirmation testimony recently, Obama nominees endorsed continuing the C.I.A. ’s program of transferring prisoners to other countries without legal rights, and indefinitely detaining terrorism suspects without trials even if they were arrested far from a war zone.
February 15th, 2009
Obama fails torture test
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Just a few days ago, the Obama administration proved what many people had suspected earlier. They proved that the torture issue would not be dealt with properly.
December 30th, 2008
Obama backing North American Union
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
December 13th, 2008
What Change Looks Like
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Let's take a look at Obama's team of change.
The “Wait ‘Til He Gets In” Delusion
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One of the more recurrent refrains I heard from many of Barack Obama’s progressive supporters in late 2007 and through the recent election went like this: “oh, he has to say and do that stuff to get elected. The corporate and military powers that be will sink him if he acts as left as he really is. Just wait until he gets in: then you’ll see the real progressive deal.”
December 8th, 2008
Change.org Censoring ALL Ideas Related to Ending the Federal Reserve
Phony Left/Right Paradigm
So what ideas lie inside the scope of the Ideas for Change in America? Monumental movements like taxing plastic bags and setting up a "National Do Not Mail Registry" to stop junk mail. Whoa, those ideas are HUGE! They would certainly stop the collapse of our economy, right?
December 7th, 2008
change.org deletes new 9/11 investigation idea as it had more votes then any other idea
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They have since deleted every “idea” calling for a new investigation into 9/11, including the #1 entry.
December 1st, 2008
Obama says change is in his vision - if not appointments
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President-elect Barack Obama essentially said Wednesday that he is the change, striving to assure Americans that he'll shake up Washington despite filling his administration with old hands from the Clinton administration and the capital's corridors of power.
Neocons, Republicans and War Criminals Rave About Obama's 'Team of Rivals'
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As Barack Obama's opus, Team of Rivals, continues its rolling debut, the early reviews are in and the "critics" are full of praise for the cast:
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