Pres. Obama moves for WAR on Iraq (video)

Ashley Wells, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly; DemocracyNow.org

I don't care about 4.5 thousand patriot GIs, what do I care about 1.4 million civilians? (DK)

OO-RAH, woo-hoo, yes! We get to go back to kill a new generation of kids and Hajjis!

Not so fast, NY Times, propagand of record. It's not over till it's over. And it ain't over.

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We Meant Well in Iraq (look inside)

WASHINGTON DC (WQ/AP/FOX/LIP) President Barack S. Obama says the U.S. is prepared to take targeted military actions [more "smart" bombs, "precision" bombing runs, and "surgical" strikes?] in Iraq if they would help fight a growing threat from extremist militants. He also says the U.S. is ready to send as many as 300 military "advisers" [a euphemism for special forces soldier] to Iraq.

Obama is offering an update to U.S. operations in Iraq, where "al-Qaeda-inspired" militants have sparked instability. He says the United States is forming joint operations centers in Baghdad and northern Iraq.

But Obama emphasizes that American combat troops would not be returning to Iraq [unless they do, which will be decided later].

See how they love me in Orange County? I'm The Decider now. Forget Dick Cheney!

 

Obama says the U.S. has increased its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance [spying and exploiting of assets, and war-as-usual] operations in Iraq to better understand the threats to Baghdad. [Having traded blood for oil, we have more blood to trade so we have to protect the refineries innocent people of Iraq.]


Extended: see Minute 1:40 when Megyn Kelly begins her surprise attack on the former VP

Megyn cannibalizes Right Dick

(Occupy Democrats) Dick Cheney was blamed for the CURRENT crisis in Iraq on the rightwing haven FOX News of all places. During an interview with mouthpiece Megyn "Reagan" Kelly (The Kelly File) where Dick attempted to pin the blame on his relative Pres. Obama.
 

Shoot me in the face, Meg?

Cheney attempted to absolve the previous three Bush administrations of any responsibility for Iraq's disarray saying that they went into the country for good reasons, which we turned out to be deliberate lies used as pretexts for imperial invasions and US war crimes. Dick claims the results were "positive." Lip News looks at Cheney's deflection in this Lip clip with Mark Sovel and Lissette Padilla. See Megyn Kelly's full interview with the Cheneys.

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A Buddhist in Congress tries to stop this War

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez (DemocracyNow.org); Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

I will say anything to get elected and reelected. But I do what the MIC directs me to.

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That was wishful thinking by the NYT

Buddhist Rep. Colleen Hanabusa (Democrat, Hawaii) on Thursday said that she will stop President Obama, who unilaterally announced the deployment of up to 300 military "advisers" [that's what we called boots on the ground in our war on Vietnam] to Iraq.
 
He is using expanded executive war powers applicable to Iraq and Afghanistan (AUMF) invented using the 9/11 pretext and Patriot Act, which means he can make initial moves without declaring war or asking Congress for permission before sinking the country in yet another war. (Of course, we never left Iraq, and we have no plans to leave Afghanistan; all we are going to do is change the name of "soldiers" to "advisors," "contractors," "experts," and "investors."
 

What Bush/Cheney started Obama intensifies.

The president, face, and mouthpiece for the MIC (military-industrial complex) left open the possibility of U.S. airstrikes against Sunni Muslim "militants" who are said to have taken back large parts of their country. Democracy Now! goes to Capitol Hill to speak to Democratic Buddhist Rep. Colleen Hanabusa of Hawaii, who successfully introduced an amendment that passed by UNANIMOUS consent this week to prevent the deployment of U.S. troops to Iraq without congressional approval. More

Thanks to whistleblower Pfc. Chelsea Bradley Manning we now have no doubt about the truth: The preemptive Iraq War, the illegal invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the "Global War on Fear (Terror)," and the NSA's massive spying ring were all founded on lies.

"The Untold History of the U.S." (video)"

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Oliver Stone, Showtime, RT.com

(Episode 3: "The Bomb") "The Untold History of the United States"

Narrated by Oliver Stone, this series of one-hour episodes features human events that at the time went un- or under- reported, yet they crucially shaped the United States' unique and complex history of, what Dr. Martin Luther King was to call, "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world," namely the United States. In a recent poll more than 60% of people worldwide view the USA as the greatest source of terrorism and violence. Might the CIA be responsible for this reputation, or are the Obama, Bush-Cheney, and Nixon administrations largely responsible for it?

(RT/MOX News) "I've always regarded the CIA as a 

criminal organization" - Oliver Stone

• Pacifica Free Speech Radio: Oliver Stone Pack (book, DVD)
  
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Sexy "Obama Girls" turn on Barack (video)

Amber Larson, CC Liu, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly; Carey Wedler; Amber Lee Ettinger (RT America); Leah Kauffman; Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan (democracynow.org)

(Carey Wedler/inrogue.co/facebook) Carey speaks for us on WHY at 0:55 and 2:45

Join me as I wreck my last artifact of support for our War-Criminal-in-Chief. I figured out the fraud a while back but only recently found his shirt in my closet. 

B----, please! she said.

It’s been a couple of weeks since burning Obama’s shirt face, It got far, FAR more views than I ever expected! Technically, viral is over a million views in a week, so call it mini-viral.
 
Regardless, not only does the all-knowing Internet have me pegged for everything from a leftist anarchist to a tea party conservative. (I’m neither). It has earned me overwhelming support.

 

Tom Tomorrow (thismodernworld.com)

It is exciting and encouraging to have experienced firsthand how disappointed, disgusted, and frustrated many people are with B.S. Obama and to see how many people have dropped the fantasy of America having a two-party system. It is one party with two wing, and it serves the people in power. I’ve done some fun interviews this week. Check them out! These are full episodes, so you may need to listen to what else they have to say before you find my segment: Pete Santilli, The Big Plantation, Ed & Ethan, The Rundown. 

Before Obama became president, his message of "change" had many falling in love with the well-groomed CIA operative and Illinois senator. One busty individual, model Amber Lee Ettinger, became an instant Internet hit when she declared her "love" for the then-candidate. Ettinger's "Obama Girl" video went viral. But years of the commander-in-chief in office has her looking for a new crush. She joins RT America with more on why she has had a change of heart.

The voice behind Obama Girl, Leah Kauffman

A new Obama Girl video -- “Still Got a Crush on Obama” -- was released in 2012: If “Obama Girl” looked different but sounded exactly the same, that’s because Leah Kauffman -- the original singer and songwriter behind the 2008 “Crush on Obama” song and video -- actually stars in this one.  Last time Kauffman and partner Ben Relles, who is not involved with this new video, hired a [hot] model, Amber Lee Ettinger, to lip-synch the original song. But in 2012 Kauffman finally stepped up to take center-stage. VIDEO

Obama defends more NSA spying

China sees Obama girls, but not Xi girl

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Pres. Obama on Monday (March 24, 2014) defended U.S. surveillance programs as serving national security rather than [civil liberties or] commercial interests, in a wide-ranging meeting with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of a nuclear summit. More

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Soft Dictator and new Pope
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Barack Obama: The Least Transparent President in History

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan (DemocracyNow.org)

Six years into the Obama administration, the president’s promise of “a new era of open government” seems just another grand promise, cynically broken. LISTEN

As colleges across the country, from Harvard to U of Mississippi, deal with (often unconscious but sometimes blatant) racism, a new film tackles the issue with comedy and satire: "Dear White People" follows a group of black students on a fictional Ivy League campus. One of the students hosts a campus radio show of the same name. It confronts racist stereotypes and dilemmas faced by students of color. Tensions come to a head when a group of mostly white students throw an African-American-themed party, wearing blackface and using watermelons and fake guns as props. More

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Facebook's face cries to White House about NSA

Wisdom Quarterly; firstlook.org/TheIntercept; Associated Press (ap.org)

Not content that Facebook already helps FBI and CIA, NSA got into the act (infowars.com).

 

The face of mega spying social media site

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's called Pres. Barack Obama to express his frustration over what he says is long-lasting damage caused by the U.S. government's surveillance programs.
 
Posting on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg wrote today that he's "been so confused and frustrated by the repeated reports of the behavior of the U.S. government."

He adds that when Facebook's "engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting [users] against criminals, not our own government."
 

Have you been paying any attention, Mark?

The post comes a day after the news site Intercept [the work of Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras, and others]  reported that the National Security Agency has impersonated a Facebook server to infect surveillance targets' computers and get files from a hard drive. The NSA says the report is "inaccurate."
 
White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden confirmed that the president spoke with Zuckerberg.

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Bigger, badder NDAA 2014 passed by gov't

Daisy Luther (DailySheeple); Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

 

It doesn't keep me up at night; my family's fine.

A bigger, badder NDAA 2014 quietly passed the House and Senate, and it is on the way to Obama’s desk.

 

While everyone is distracted with the holiday festivities, Congress has been hard at work [selling out the citizenry] in the name of national "security."

Yesterday [Dec. 20, 2013], the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act was fast-tracked through the Senate, with no time for discussion or amendments. As it’s Christmastime and the end of the week, our representatives brought it up and passed it quietly so as to quickly recess for the holidays -- and, no doubt, to avoid protests from the public. The new version of the NDAA had already been quietly passed by the House of Representatives.

 

It authorizes massive spending, including $527 billion in basic defense spending for the current fiscal year (not including black operations not reported on the regular books), funding for the US/JSOC war on Afghanistan, and funding for nuclear weapons programs.

Under what authority? The new NDAA gives us all the authority we could want.

  

The indefinite detention allowed by the original NDAA is still here, and it’s actually worse now: There are new provisions that will make it easier for the government to target those who disagree, dissent, or demonstrate.

 

CIA's Susan Lindauer

Section 1071 outlines the creation of the “Conflict Records Research Center,” where the unconstitutionally obtained information the NSA has collected is compiled and shared with the Department of [War]. That information, called “captured records,” can be anything from our phone records, emails, browsing history, or posts on social media sites. The New American reports in detail on the expansion of powers: More

(RN) CIA asset Susan Lindauer blows the whistle (RevolutionNews.US)

American judge rules against NSA spying

Wisdom Quarterly; TheGuardian.com; Mitch Jeserich, Larry Klayman (KPFA, Berkeley)

Larry Klayman, who successfully challenged the military-industrial complex's spying apparatus, the NSA, in civilian court was interviewed on Pacifica's "Letters and Politics." He says, "I challenged the NSA in court because it's a totalitarian attack on human rights. I'm pleased Judge Leon sided with the American people Monday by ruling that the NSA's actions likely violate the Constitution..."

 

Lead Plaintiff of NSA Ruling
Letters and Politics (Dec. 17, 2013, 10:00 am)

• LISTEN: PLAY NOW - download (MP3, 10.27 MB)

Larry Klayman, conservative (right wing) activist  (often applauded by the left), is the lead plaintiff in Tuesday's NSA ruling. He appears to talk about his case and his history of suing American presidents. Also: David Greene (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Ben Griffin...

[Mr. Klayman, what difference does it make if brave Judge Leon symbolically stood up to the powers that be if this ruling, which he himself placed on hold as soon as he ruled to allow the government to appeal his decision, will soon be overturned by FISA Court judges (15 of which have affirmed NSA crimes as acceptable) or corruption in the Supreme Court is exploited by the third Bush administration (now called the Obama administration)? It can be passed by executive order or sent back underground to be done illegally just as was happening before Edward Snowden blew the whistle and is being made an example slated for assassination on a JSOC/Obama-approved "kill list."]

American gov't crimes
Larry Klayman, The Guardian

Shortly after it was disclosed by then Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden that the NSA was running roughshod over the constitutional rights of the American people, I filed two class action lawsuits, on behalf of myself and a client, Charles Strange, who lost his son, a NSA cryptologist, in the Afghan war. 

These lawsuits not only ask for large monetary damages, but also for an injunction against the US government spying on over 300 million citizens in violation of the Patriot and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Acts. The laws make it crystal clear that the NSA, CIA, FBI, or any other American government agency can only eavesdrop on persons who are under investigation for being in contact with foreign terrorists... More

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Government reopens (cartoon)

Wisdom Quarterly; Scott Hilburn (TheArgyleSweater.com); Alan Fram, Donna Cassata (AP) 

Hooray? Partially closed government reopens...and US goes deeper into debt as the single party (with two wings) agrees with itself to raise its debt ceiling. Disaster averted?

 

Well, we got away with it. - Yeah, for now.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate leaders announced a last-minute agreement Wednesday to avert a threatened Treasury default and reopen the government after a partial 16-day shutdown. Congress raced to pass the measure by day's end. The Dow Jones industrial average soared on the news... More

(RT.com) "We're just kicking the problem down the road."