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bankrupt, and ought to have been nationalized for the American
people to gain control of their financial rate instead of it
being left at the mercy of a bunch of utterly selfish riverboat gamblers.
From Enron bankruptcy in the year 200 to the Bush bankruptcy
of America in 2008. And Obama differs only very slightly in being what
used to be called a moderate Republican, and solely in domestic policy.
The time is not far off when the disaffection, albeit
ignorant, of the Tea Partiers and the Occuppy Movement
will coalesce and you will have a genuine Amurrican
socialist movement. All that this fortunate eventuality needs
is the spark that will meld and that spark will be a bit of liberation
theology so as to infuse evangelical vigor and selflessness, into that
great moshpit that is known as Los Estados Unidos Norte , and even the
world will not be ever the same. And you heard it here first at: http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/
based on fraudulently manufactured acts of Polish
aggression against Germany, Admiral Canaris [see link
below] is said to have blanched and pronounced:
"This is the end." More properly he might have
reached this rightful conclusion less instantaneously,
and have said: "This is the beginning of the end,"
as bankrupter G.W.Bush's equally criminal invasion of Iraq, based as it was on even less convincing manufactured evidence, will mark the beginning of the of U.S. hegemony.
The Bush Presidency, which started with the bankruptcy
of one of his major supporters, the Enron Company,
ended, for all intents and purposes, with the bankruptcy of the U.S. IN 2008, papered over with trillions of dollars from the Fed to the US Banking Industry. No prosecution by the once head of the Harvard Law Review!
Compared to the dissension and the conspiracies within
the conservative elements of the German military under Hitler the dissent within the American military has been paltry.
I suspect that those interested in compounding the Iraq invasion with an attack on Iran, will have their way, with unforeseeable consequences, none of the pleasant.
This provocation was the
best-known of several actions in Operation
Himmler, a series of unconventional
operations undertaken
by the SSin order to
serve specific propaganda goals of Nazi Germany at the outbreak of the
war. It was intended to create the appearance of Polish aggression
against Germany in order to justify the subsequent invasion of Poland.
On the night of 31 August
1939, a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish
uniforms and led by Naujocks,[2] seized the Gleiwitz
station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish (sources
vary on the content of the message). The Germans' goal was to make
the attack and the broadcast look like the work of anti-German
Polish saboteurs.[2][3]
To make the attack seem
more convincing, the Germans brought in Franciszek Honiok, a
German Silesian known for sympathizing
with the Poles, who had been arrested the previous day by the Gestapo. Honiok was dressed
to look like a saboteur; then killed by lethal
injection, given gunshot wounds, and left dead at the scene,
so that he appeared to have been killed while attacking the
station. His corpse was subsequently presented as proof of the
attack to the police and press.[4]
In addition to Honiok,
several other prisoners from the Dachau
concentration camp[2] were kept available for
this purpose.[3] The Germans referred to
them by the code phrase "Konserve" ("canned goods"). For
this reason, some sources incorrectly refer to the incident as
"Operation Canned Goods."[5]
At any event, even if there had been, it would
have been another instance of the 19th century
call: "That Indian has a gun." That Indian mucked with my woman, that Indian mucked with me cow! That you, the frontiersmen with your overwhelming force had thousands of guns went unmentioned. Preventive war is nothing new, that gun or in this case that that
Indian might somewhere down the line have a gun
salves whatever if any qualms you may have
about your impulse to conquer and control, to assuage that paranoia that, dammit, that little agenbite, that continues to trouble you into continuing to attack whatever vengeance you fear your actions have provoked.
Long live the imperialist impulse!
BLOWBACK, o me Gawd!
Ditto for the Afghanistan Adventure: no mention everof its destabilization under Carter/ Brzezinski, to involve the Russian in throwing a nation of 25 million to the dogs
of war; or of Reagan/ Casey's creation of the Mujahedim [Osama bin Laden
any one?]. Thus if you were reaching reading comprehension
age in 2011 and depended on the NY Times for a modicum you will be left seriously uninformed,
possibly puzzled.
One reason I write is that I have no idea to what extent you have apprised yourself of the controversy occasioned by the
then NY Times reporter Judith Miller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Miller_(journalist) A number of stories she wrote while working
for The New York Times later turned out to be inaccurate or completely
false; and of how well assi the first NY Times Public Editor, Daniel
Okrent, and his successor took up that issue. Jack Schaefer covered the Miller affair amusingly at his then slate.pressbox column.
Relievedly, at least, we may be spared further installments of CIA updates in the NY Times OP-Ed pages, courtesy of that ex-choir boy, Michael O'Hanlon, of the Brookings Institute.
A presidency that started with the bankruptcy of Enronended with, for all intents and purposes, with the bankruptcy
of the US!
Sincerely,
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"Degustibus disputandum est" {Theodor Wiesenthal Adorno}
"May the foggy dew bediamondize your hoosprings + the fireplug
of filiality reinsure your bunghole! {James Joyce}
"Sryde Lyde Myde Vorworde Vorhorde Vorborde." {von Alvensleben}
"Siena me fe, disfescimi Maremma." {Dante}
"Ennui [Lange Weile] is the dreambird that hatches the egg of
experience." {Walter Benjamin, the essay on Leskov.}
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BECAUSE
HE IS AS OPPOSED TO IMPERIALISM AS IS RON PAUL
HE IS A FUNDAMENTALIST CHRISTIAN
BUT OF THE GOSPEL
THAT IS OF THE BEATITUDES
BECAUSE HE IS AS ARTICULATE AS MARTIN LUTHER KING
BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT WE CAN GAIN CONTROL
OF CAPITAL AND NOT BE AT THE MERCY
OF THE CAPITALISTS
NOT MATTER THAT HE CLAIMS TO BE IMPEFECT
AND THAT HE HAS ALLOWED ONE OR THE
OTHER BEAUTY TO SLIP INTO HIS
SLEEPING BAG WHILE ON ASSIGNMENT
AT THE MANY WARS HE HAS SEEN!
re: http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/the-%E2%80%9Cleft%E2%80%9D-and-libya/
+ re: http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/the-%E2%80%9Cdecent-left%E2%80%9D-and-the-libya-intervention/
Dear Alex,
your and Professor Gibbs' two pieces on Libya, much as I agree especially with your take, yet contains
the usual mix of 75 % truth and 25 % Corbuncle [to make a lousy pun]
e.g: Gibbs:" The intervention has generated significant dangers to global
security: The character of Western policy toward the Libyan despot – by
first persuading Gaddafi to give up his nuclear weapons development
program and then overthrowing him – has discouraged other countries from
abandoning their own nuclear weapons programs. The intervention thus
constitutes a setback for international efforts to curb nuclear
proliferation. "
Gibbs, tendentiously I would say, elides two unrelated events - Omar the
Great giving up on The Bomb + his downfall - into one, whereas The
West was getting the oil
anyway and generally prefers the solidity of an known s.o.b. to the
unknown one or to many who are vying currently. Thus Gibbs
asserts a falsehood and then derives, asserts non-consequences from it.
The case that you make out really rests on the assertion that the reporting was second-hand as of a certain
point [" It
was the secondhand allegation of massacres that drove both news
coverage and U.N. activities – particularly in the early stage, when
U.N. Resolution 1970 was adopted, calling for sanctions and the referral
of Gaddafi’s closest circle to the International Criminal Court."} and that Qaddafi never had a
chance to answer either via the media or the UN. In court of course you
allow even "the mad dog" his growl [about the one instance I happen to
agree with one of Ronnie's assessments!], and I will have to take a slog
through the voluminous reporting to check how second hand it was.
I would also say that you do yourself no favors by the calumny of the insinuation that because the
CIA may at least have been intelligent enough to consult with Juan Cole, for lack of IQ on its own part,
he nilly-willy becomes "CIA-consultant Juan Cole". Or in calling the rebel council a "jerry-rigged rebel committee in Benghazi" - how can it be anything but under the circumstances?
I miss in both your and Gibbs' assessment any relation of the Libyan
phenomenon to the one that had its inception in neighboring Tunisia,
referred
to as "the Arab Spring", now lasting well into winter.
I agree but for the qualifier "vague" and "supposed" with statements of yours such as ; "we
moved from vague allegations of Gaddafi’s supposed “genocide” or
“crimes against humanity” to two separate votes in the U.N. Security
Council, which permitted a NATO mission to establish a “no-fly” zone to
protect civilians, this latter protection to be achieved by “all
necessary measures.” + entirely with: "Also,
by late May, it was apparent that the rebels’ military capacities were
modest in the extreme, that Ghadafi’s eviction was not going to be the
overnight affair, confidently predicted in western capitals and in
Benghazi, also that NATO’s bombardments were not having the requisite
effect.
Our Bernard Henry Levy seems to have persuaded Sarkozy that this was his main chance.
Respectfully as ever.
I will post this on the much neglected "summa.politico.blog".
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"Degustibus disputandum est" {Theodor Wiesenthal Adorno}
"May the foggy dew bediamondize your hoosprings + the fireplug
of filiality reinsure your bunghole! {James Joyce}
"Sryde Lyde Myde Vorworde Vorhorde Vorborde." {von Alvensleben}
"Siena me fe, disfescimi Maremma." {Dante}
"Ennui [Lange Weile] is the dreambird that hatches the egg of
experience." {Walter Benjamin, the essay on Leskov.}
http://analytic-comments.blogspot.com/
http://summapolitico.blogspot.com/A COMMENT ON ALEX COBURN + PROF. GIBBS TAKE ON LIBYA IN COUNTERPUNCH
My 9/11 commemoration begins with the commemoration of the destabilization of Afghanistan by Carter/ Brzezinski
in 1979 to get the Russian Bear to enter to be bloodied by the CIA - Reagan Casey - organized counter-insurgency by the world wide Mujahedin.
Imagine a nation of 25 million being sacrificed to the whims of cold war ideology! Now if that is not a crime bordering on Auschwitz and the Vietnam War, on what order is it? And Ziggie is still proud of what he did!
imagine letting the Mujahedin then dangle in the wind of their own devices after they had done the job of inflicting
huge losses on the stupid Russian bear? Thus vengeance continues to play out among the Geopolitical Monsters both big and small;and as Noam Chomsky noted the other day: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/06-1 "That
Washington was bent on fulfilling bin Laden’s fervent wishes was
evident at once. As discussed in my book 9-11, written shortly after
those attacks occurred, anyone with knowledge of the region could
recognize “that a massive assault on a Muslim population would be the
answer to the prayers of bin Laden and his associates, and would lead
the U.S. and its allies into a ‘diabolical trap,’ as the French foreign
minister put it.”,,The senior CIA analyst responsible for tracking Osama
bin Laden from 1996, Michael Scheuer, wrote shortly after that “bin
Laden has been precise in telling America the reasons he is waging war
on us. [He] is out to drastically alter U.S. and Western policies toward
the Islamic world,” and largely succeeded: “U.S. forces and policies
are completing the radicalization of the Islamic world, something Osama
bin Laden has been trying to do with substantial but incomplete success
since the early 1990s. As a result, I think it is fair to conclude that
the United States of America remains bin Laden’s only indispensable
ally.” And arguably remains so, even after his death."
Not the sort of thing that is said to educate the mourners and traumatized in New York of course,
not even by the Drone Master Nobel Peace Prize Winner, President Obama..
"Remember that the United States, under President Carter and National Security Advisor Brzezinski destabilized Afghanistan in 1978/79 to draw in the Russians and that President Reagan and C.I.A. Casey organized the Mujaheddin to fight the Russians once they had been drawn into Afghanistan. Z. Brzezinski is still proud of what he did then. The Majaheddin were left dangling in the wind after they had done the job of severely decimating the Russians with American supplied arms, especially Stinger missiles, to bring down the Russian helicopters. Osama bin Laden was a CIA assett at one time - who became disenchanted and vengeful. It is more than just a shame that the Afghan people - all 25 million of them, and then the people in New York, suffer the consequences of politics on high. http://www.facebook.com/mike.roloff1?ref=name
Kabul —
AKBAR ROSTAMI/ NASIBA ALIMYAAR/ Abdul Rahman Sultani
http://www.kw.af/english/
From hundreds of diplomatic cables, the U.S emerges as a looking-glass land where bribery, extortion and embezzlement are the norm and the honest official is a distinct outlier.
Describing the likely lineup of the congress , the the Afghan Embassy noted that most of the new members of the house of representatives, be they Republicans or Democrats were bankrolled by huge industrial concerns or by banks, assuring these entities that no matter who won they would maintain their control. This is called "doubling your bet" in American, and it works. Dennis Kucinich appears to be the only congress person about whom no allegations of bribery exist.
One official helpfully explained to diplomats the “four stages” at which his colleagues skimmed money from American development projects: “When contractors bid on a project, at application for building permits, during construction, and at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.” In a seeming victory against corruption, Congressman Rangel of NY, was mererly censure for gross violations of ethic rule, proving that at least when it comes to cruption there is no "color bar" in the U.S. But a cable from the embassy told a very different story: Mr. Rangel was a victim of “kangaroo court justice,” it said, in what appeared to be retribution for his attempt to halt a corrupt land-distribution scheme.
It is hardly news that predatory corruption, fueled by a booming illicit narcotics industry, is rampant at every level of U.S. society. Transparency International, an advocacy organization that tracks government corruption around the globe, ranks the U.S as the world’s third most corrupt country, behind Somalia and Myanmar, but ahead of Afghanistan and Serbia and Albania and Kosovo and Romania.
But the collection of confidential diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to a number of publications, offers a fresh sense of its pervasive nature, its overwhelming scale, and the dispiriting challenge it poses to American officials who have made shoring up support for the US government a cornerstone of America’s strategy .
The cables make it clear that American officials see the problem as beginning at the top. An August 2009 report from Kabul complains that President Obama was elected with $ 750 million from the Banking Industry
The embassy was particularly concerned that President Obama welched on nearly 50 of his campaign promises and that his electorate was becoming dispirited. The odds on Sarah Palin winning the nomination and the Presidency in 2012 are at 2:1 at the Kabul betting parlors, slightly higher than the Vegas line.
The American dilemma is perhaps best summed up in an October 2009 cable sent by the famous addict Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry, written after he met with Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president’s half brother, the most powerful man in Kandahar and someone many American officials believe prospers from the drug trade. (Mr. Karzai denies any involvement with narcotics trafficking.)
“The meeting with AWK highlights one of our major challenges in Afghanistan: how to fight corruption and connect the people to their government, when the key government officials are themselves corrupt,” Ambassador Eikenberry wrote. "I myself didn't get my cut."
Afghan officials seem to search in vain for an honest partner. A November 2009 cable described the acting governor of Khost Province, Tahir Khan Sabari, as hoping that General Patreus might be “a refreshing change,” an effective and trustworthy leader. But Mr. Sabari told his American admirers that he did not have “the $200,000-300,000 for a bribe” necessary to secure the job permanently.
Ahmed Zia Massoud held the post of first vice president from 2004 to 2009; the brother of the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, he was discussed as a future president. Last year, a cable reported, Mr. Massoud was caught by customs officials carrying $52 million in unexplained cash into the United Arab Emirates.
A diplomatic cable is not a criminal indictment, of course, and in an interview Mr. Massoud denied taking any money out of Afghanistan. “It’s not true,” he said. “Fifty-two million dollars is a pile of money as big as this room.” Yet while his official salary was a few hundred dollars a month, he lives in a waterfront house on Palm Jumeirah, a luxury Dubai community that is also home to other Afghan officials. When a reporter visited the dwelling this year, a Rolls-Royce was parked out front.
The cables describe a country where everything is for sale, where Ponzi schemes are rampant,
where the bankers whom the Obama administration saved with the bail out are again giving
themselves bonuses in the hundred of millions
Then again, another cable reports “rumors” that President Obama himself “was involved in a corrupt oil import deal.” He denied the rumors, saying that they were inventions by two rivals who were “among the most corrupt in Chicago,” the cable said.
More Caramel, more Sugar,Sweeter smiles, Friendlier embracesGentler noises
The same big shtickThe same formulaDifferent tactics, Same Strategy
that’s what you can call the same old same old Coke
Yup, the New Coke Tastes nearly Like The Old
The Sheeples still sort of like It
they’re still drinking it up
Yes, we willbe happy earning Chinese slave laborers wagesasLarry Summers nods out at the first Cabinet meeting!
Yes we can! Keep things the same old same old!
Fill the gas bag with hope!
Laughing gas?
One more time
While the disenchanted sheeples
Are drinking a nasty brew of tea!
OBAMBI’S FIRST 21 MONTHS
a.k.a. the Goldman-Sachs Presidency
Never met a General he didn’t love
A Rubin that wasn’t Rubenesque…
20+ BROKEN PROMISES
5 KEPT [sort of]
FAR MORE CONTINUITY THAN CHANGE Ought the continuities be considered broken promises,too?
This just in: ctd. Bushies Military Commissions!!!
continues renditions
[with safeguards no less! wow!]
Bailed on not supporting the Marriage act, i.e I can’t live in bigamous bliss with my Goat Chiquita and Burro Durango
Mountain tops in the Appalachians ctd. to be exploded off and ruining the stream;
CONTINUITY = I.E. NO CHANGE. so the same guys that used to work for “agua negra” now XE work for DinCorps, big diff! but not for interrogations?? who needs them anyway if you’ve got the c.i.a. doing it???
Despite Obama's Disarmament Vow, Missile Shield Continues, defense, fewer of one plane, more of another; “defense” budget increases by 70 billion; same old twice a year “supplementals!!” promised not to do any!
SIXTEEN MONTHS WITHDRAWAL DEFERS TO PENTAGON OR ALL THOSE GENERAL AND ADMIRALS IN THE ADMINISTRATION DEFER TO HIM =
BUT LET’S GIVE THE GUY A BREAK:
PUT IT DOWN TO PROMISE KEPT,
sort of with 50 k troops and bases in perpetuity… after all, he expressed pleasure and surprise at the success of “the surge”… without seeming to understand the payoffs involved?? and he’s from Chicago??
All right we’ll give him a promise sort of kept the best that you’re gonna get anyhow…
8]TORTURE: PROMISE BROKEN = JUST SIGNED EXECUTIVE ORDER ALLOWING FURTHER RENDITIONS… AH AND WHAT CESAR WILL RENDER UNTO ME TO BE RENDERED IS EX-VEEP CHENEY, HOW THE FAT WILL DRIP OFF THE SPIT BEFORE I TAKE OUT HIS COLD ELECTRIC HEART!
It’s really Cheney’s Mom’s fault says Dr. Bialistock [Dr. Bernard Bail] would say
FOREIGN POLICY = NO CHANGE [CLINTON] GENERAL CONTINUITY SO HE’LL TALK SOME MORE, BIG DEAL! General Jones! That’s a new one me!
IRAN POLICY ONLY WORDS SO FAR…
He’s “troubled” by a meaningless election.
PENTAGON = NO CHANGE [GATES] CONTINUITY
A'STAn NO CHANGE EXACTLY THE SAME, EVEN WORSE NOT A NEW IDEA TO BE FOUND, EXCEPT EXPANSION INTO PAKISTAN! divide and conquer the Taliban is US 19th century Indian policy on a global scale. But that was one promise
He certainly kept.
CHANGE
1] ENERGY POLICY - LOOKS LIKE CHANGE SO FAR
2] CIA = CHANGE, AT LEAST AT THE TOP, though Penetta at his confirmation hearing allowed that under certain circumstances he too might allow torture.
3] UN = CHANGE=ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE WALRUS AMOUNTS TO CHANGE THOUGH MS. RICE IS WHAT IS CALLED A HUMANITY HYENA WHO ARE FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE COYOTE PACK NEAR WHERE I LIVE IN SEATTLE…But hasn’t been in the news at all “our girl at the U.N.”
But she has been very low key so far.
NAT SEC ADVISER = CONTINUITY
ECONOMIC POLICY = ABSOLUTE AND COMPLETE CONTINUITY FOR THE MONEY ELITE, some regulation in the offing, yea, you bet, caps of half a million on earnings for those who are on the government dole!
SAME FOLKS WHO GOT U.S. INTO THE FIX WE’RE IN ARE SUPPOSED TO BAIL US OUT WILL BAIL OUT THEIR KIND AT GOLDMAN SACHS.
LABOR = SLIGHT CHANGE, BUT DID NOT MENTION THE LAW THAT HE BACKED IN HIS CAMPAIGN TO MAKE ORGANIZING UNIONS EASIER WHEN HE MET WITH LABOR LEADERS. I.E. VERY TEPIC CHANGE AT BEST COMPARED TO WHAT LABOR MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED SINCE THE REALLY WENT TO BAT FOR THE GUY DURING THE CAMPAIGN… WHAT IF THEY HAD STAID NEUTRAL???
DEPT OF INTERIOR = VERY MODEST CHANGE
ENLISTING SUPPORT OF EVENGALICALS AND FAITH-BASED INITIATIVE = NO CHANGE FROM THAT KIND OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN RELIGION
FBI = NO CHANGE, SAME GUY
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY LOOKS LIKE REALLY VERY MODEST CHANGE WITH KEN SALAZAR AS HEAD OF THE DEPT OF INTERIOR, EXCEPT FOR AFOREMENTIONED MOUNTAIN TOPS WHICH KEEP BEING CHOPPED OFF DESPITE ALL THAT HOT AIR DURING THE CAMPAIGN
Change in Cuba policy made dependent on “Cuba’s release of political prisoners “[does that include u.s. hired assassins?] sweet noises at a meeting in South America…
It’s the sweet noises presidency..
Tax cuts on those earning more than 250 K a year, promise was to revoke, let’s see if it really happens, though the budget is now premised on it.
Obama pledged to veto any bill rejecting the request, meaning he is beginning his presidency not by “turn [ing] the page on policies that have put the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street,” as he once pledged. Instead, he is promising a mushroom cloud unless lawmakers let taxpayer cash continue to flow to the biggest of Big Money interests
ctd. belligerence toward Russia? during the campaign just like McCain. But it appears there might be real change in the offing, too early to tell whether it is merely cosmetic and for publicity’s sake…
regulate the money people, the bundlers who put him in office???? no way, Josay!
Hey, you Liberal Democrats. You may have won the election, but you're getting CREAMED in the transition.
Today, President-elect Barack Obama stuck it to you. He's chosen Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education.
Who? Duncan is most decidedly not an educator. He's a lawyer. But Duncan has this extraordinary qualification: He's Obama's pick-up basketball buddy from Hyde Park.
US military prepares for Obama’s expansion of Afghan war
US General David McKiernan, told journalists: "I don't like to use the term ‘surge' here, because if we put these additional forces in, it's going to be for the next few years, this three - or four-year period. It's not a temporary increase of combat strength."
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COLOR CODE: YELLOW= CONTINUITY. I.E. NO CHANGE
:BLUE = PROMISE KEPT AND/OR CHANGE
………………….GREY=AS YET UNDETERMINED
SCOREBOARD:
11 ELEVEN NO CHANGE/BROKEN PROMISE
8 [EIGHT] CHANGES, SOME VERY MODEST
LOTS OF GREY UNDECIDED AREAS
1] USE OF PRIVATE CONTRACTORS CONTINUITY = I.E. NO CHANGE
2] SIXTEEN MONTHS WITHDRAWAL DEFERS TO PENTAGON OR ALL THOSE GENERAL AND ADMIRALS IN THE ADMINISTRATION DEFER TO HIM = BUT LET’S GIVE THE GUY A BREAK: PUT IT DOWN TO PROMISE KEPT
3]TORTURE: PROMISE BROKEN = JUST SIGNED EXECUTIVE ORDER ALLOWING FURTHER RENDITIONS… AH AND WHAT CESAR WILL RENDER UNTO ME TO BE RENDERED IS EX-VEEP CHENEY, HOW THE FAT WILL DRIP OFF THE SPIT BEFORE I TAKE OUT HIS COLD ELECTRIC HEART!
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/31-3
4] FOREIGN POLICY = NO CHANGE [CLINTON] GENERAL CONTINUITY
5] IRAN POLICY ONLY WORDS SO FAR
6] PENTAGON = NO CHANGE [GATES] CONTINUITY
7] A'STAn NO CHANGE EXACTLY THE SAME, EVEN WORSE NOT A NEW IDEA TO BE FOUND, EXCEPT EXPANSION INTO PAKISTAN!
8] ENERGY POLICY - LOOKS LIKE CHANGE SO FAR
9] CIA = CHANGE, AT LEAST AT THE TOP
10] UN = CHANGE=ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE WALRUS AMOUNTS TO CHANGE THOUGH MS. RICE IS WHAT IS CALLED A HUMANITY HYENA WHO ARE FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE COYOTE PACK NEAR WHERE I LIVE IN SEATTLE…
12] NAT SEC ADVISER = CONTINUITY
13] ECONOMIC POLICY = CONTINUITY
SAME FOLKS WHO GOT US INTO THE FIX WE’RE IN ARE SUPPOSED TO BAIL US OUT WIL BAIL OUT THEIR KIND
13] LABOR = SLIGHT CHANGE, BUT DID NOT MENTION THE LAW THAT HE BACKED IN HIS CAMPAIGN TO MAKE ORGANIZING UNIONS EASIER WHEN HE MET WITH LABOR LEADERS.I.E. VERY TEPIC CHANGE AT BEST COMPARED TO WHAT LABOR MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED SINCE THE REALY WENT TO BAT FOR THE GUY DURING THE CAMPAIGN… WHAT IF THEY HAD STAID NEUTRAL???
14] DEPT OF INTERIOR = VERY MODEST CHANGE
15] ENLISTING SUPPORT OF EVENGALICALS AND FAITHBASED INITIAVE = NO CHANGE FROM THAT KIND OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN RELIGION
16] FBI = NO CHANGE
17] ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY LOOKS LIKE REAL CHANGE
18] NAFTA PROMISED RENOGATIONS????
19] Change in Cuba policy made dependent on “Cuba’s release of political prisoners “[does that include u.s. hired assassins??]
20] Tax cuts on those earning more than 250 K a year, promise was to revoke, now he’s changed his mind. BROKEN PROMISE
21] EDUATION? FOR THE WORSE SEE:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175022/andy_kroll_will_public_education_be_militarized_ BUT IT IS A CHANGE
Obama pledged to veto any bill rejecting the request, meaning he is beginning his presidency not by “turn[ing] the page on policies that have put the greed and irresponsibility of Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street,” as he once pledged. Instead, he is promising a mushroom cloud unless lawmakers let taxpayer cash continue to flow to the biggest of Big Money interests
Hey, you Liberal Democrats. You may have won the election, but you're getting CREAMED in the transition.
Today, President-elect Barack Obama stuck it to you. He's chosen Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education.
Who? Duncan is most decidedly not an educator. He's a lawyer. But Duncan has this extraordinary qualification: He's Obama's pick-up basketball buddy from Hyde Park.
US military prepares for Obama’s expansion of Afghan war
US General David McKiernan, told journalists: "I don't like to use the term ‘surge' here, because if we put these additional forces in, it's going to be for the next few years, this three- or four-year period. It's not a temporary increase of combat strength."
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