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Secrecy has nothing to do with the national security and everything to do with private interests and those who lie, steal, cheat, murder, rape, pillage the public by using executive privilege. Aristotle and every major political philosopher since has warned against secrecy in office. It indicates the presence of abusive self interest which is tyranny. The president is required to turn over his records upon leaving office for the public record but Obama intends to assist Bush and Cheney in continuing their secrecy. The president-elect’s Web site promises he will reverse Executive Order 13233, nullifying the timely, lawful release of presidential records. For more on this go to : http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081129_bushs_11th_hour_bid_for_secrecy/

I believe that strong leadership requests information, makes decisive decisions and bears the responsibility. The level of knowledge required to be decisive in the office of the President of the United States was much greater than the present administration possessed and its lack of wisdom crippled the financial system of this nation; something the people trusted it was well poised to strengthen. What system can Obama enhance with popular words, high ideals, charismatic speeches, and a plentiful lack of hard earned leadership and experience while Biden and Clinton are calling the shots? This looks like a repeat performance.

AIM Column | September 29, 2008 Many commentators, Schiff said, are telling people that if the bailout doesn’t go forward, there will be an economic crisis. While many of the talking heads and pundits on TV have been providing calming words of reassurance about proposed federal intervention in the financial system, analyst Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital has been accurately warning for years about a financial meltdown and says that the worst, if Congress eventually passes the “bailout” bill, is yet to come. Asked for comment on current media coverage of the financial meltdown, he told Accuracy in Media, “Absent when they have me on, it’s pretty bad.” Many commentators, Schiff said, are telling people that if the bailout doesn’t go forward, there will be an economic crisis. However, “if we do it, there will be a bigger crisis,” he predicts. “The politicians want to make believe we can avoid paying the piper if we pass these bailouts,” he said. “It’s just not t...

May 15, 2008 In a shocking incident of vigilante justice, a mob in Karachi on Wednesday burnt three bandits alive near the Timber Market, venting their anger and disgust over the rising crimes. The gory incident took place when four robbers barged into Akbar Soomro’s apartment on the third floor in the Somiya Mukarram Palace, situated near the Timber Market. The robbers barged into his house at around 1:30 pm and held the children hostage at gunpoint. They cut the telephone line and electricity wires and locked the house from inside and started misbehaving with the women. The bandits looted cash and jewellery. When they were about to flee, the door bell rang. When the bandits opened the door, they found Akbar, the head of the family. They shot and injured him and started fleeing. Akbar, a seaman by profession, chased the bandits and made a hue and cry. The passers-by and residents of the area caught the three bandits and started beating them, while the fourth escaped. They immedi...

This is and awesome article by David Brant that may be found on Ground Report , I would highly recommend reading his material. Right on, David! W ith oil prices flowing relentlessly upward--at least for the time being--and gasoline prices naturally, inevitably following suit, it should be clear to all educated adults, reglardless of whehter or not they are economists or day-traders, why these prices are going up. We are all taught in school, well before our college-age years, of the law of supply and demand. Assuming that demand remains constant, when supply goes down, prices go up; when supply goes up, prices go down. With two very, very heavily populated nations called China and India increasing their demand for energy and, hence, oil at a ruthlessly fast rate as they move their societies into the prosperous capitalistic model of doing business and become technologically savvy, oil supplies and the prospecting for places from which to get new supplies are having great amounts o...

Mr. Bush said: "I don't know what their thinking was, but I'm telling you what I think it was, I think it was a provocative act." The US president was speaking in the White House Rose Garden on the first anniversary of the Iraq troop surge, hours before leaving for a week-long Middle East trip. i don't know what their thinking was this is a common loaded rhetorical statement which communicates disinterest in the other person or party ... it shows a closed mind and a hardened spirit but I'm telling you what I think it was I think it was a provocative act with this our president has stated to the world what he wishes to think and believe and what he wishes us to think and believe in other words get ready for war echoes of the bay of tonkin also: What is this Iran provocation BS? Source: CounterPunch Author: David Lindorff Posted on 01.08.08 by Mary Lou Seymour “Not one news story about this week’s latest chapter in the administrati...

The following is an excerpt from Information Clearinghouse: "Bhutto's assassination is a blow to people all over Pakistan, and the world, who hold life sacred and believe in the basics precepts of democracy. It is also a blow to women worldwide who took strength from seeing such a courageous, articulate and charismatic woman playing a leadership role in a powerful Muslim country. Inside Pakistan, even her most bitter critics wept at the news of her death, understanding that it is indeed a dark day when assassination becomes a tool for eliminating opposing viewpoint" There is much speculation about who committed this odious act. It could certainly be religious militants opposed to a leader like Bhutto who repeatedly expressed her determination to combat violent extremists. Bhutto was perceived by many Pakistanis as too "pro-Western," especially after remarks that if elected Prime Minister,...

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By Debra Rae February 5, 2006 NewsWithViews.com By definition, globalism is an interdependent, one-world state that undermines Western traditionalism inclusive of the US Constitution , free enterprise, Judeo-Christian ethic, and the traditional family—all of which, over time, are exchanged for so-called enlightened collaborative consciousness in the name of “collective security.” Curious, isn’t it, that the National Chairman of the Communist Party USA, Gus Hall once made this startling admission: “The battle [to save America] will be lost, not when freedom of speech is finally taken away.” Instead, Hall continued, America will be lost “when her citizens become so adjusted or conditioned to getting along with the group that, when they finally see the threat, they say, ‘I can’t afford to be controversial.’” That is to s...

ELITE MEET BEHIND STIFF SECURITY Secret Cabal Roosts at Ritz-Carlton; Riot Police Keep All But Invited Out BILDERBERG 2007 REPORT AFP’s Jim Tucker is back in the United States after discovering Bilderberg right in the middle of Istanbul, and not at the Klassis Country Club, 40 miles outside Istanbul as he first believed. What follows is Jim’s first on-the-spot report, filed before leaving Istanbul. By James P. Tucker Jr. ISTANBUL, Turkey—Bilderberg celebrated President Bush’s “surrender” on two major issues while showing distress over continuing setbacks to its goal of establishing a world government under the United Nations. Bush’s surrender came on two fronts: The environment and the sovereignty-surrendering Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). As recently as May 25, Bush administration officials reiterated his long-standing opposition to European demands on the environment, especially the Kyoto Treaty, which would impose he...

Spotlight Reviews January 4, 2000 Reviewer: miketol@mtco.com (Eureka, IL United States) When In Retrospect first came out, some of the people at the college where I teach came up to me and said: "Did you hear? McNamara's published a book and he says the Vietnam War was all a mistake!" Whoa - talk about your late-breaking news! Still, I suppose hearing those sentiments from the highest levels imparts a certain power to them that us lowly grunts could never hope to possess - but I think I recall saying "this is a big mistake" on my first patrol (I served in 'Nam in '68-'69). The rub, of course, comes when we try to figure out WHY it was a mistake, and it is here that McNamara can give us something truly significant. Does he? I think that he does, but what he has to give us has been dished up many times before. Apparently realizing that he hadn't provided those answers the war requires in In Retrospect, McNamara instituted a series of conferences...

take a good look at your own foundation your feet one is always on the right and the other is always going to be on the left but your ass which you keep covered up is always in the middle

25 January, 2006 Alternet Scott Ritter served as a Chief UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq from 1991 until his resignation in 1998. He is the author of, most recently, Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein (Nation Books, 2005). S tung by growing criticism of his Iraq policy which has manifested itself in all-time low public opinion ratings, President Bush last month embarked on a tour in which he delivered five speeches outlining his "Plan for Victory" in Iraq, as well as offering a defense of his decision to invade Iraq. "It is true that much of the intelligence [used to justify the invasion] turned out to be wrong", Mr. Bush said in the fourth of these speeches. "As President, I'm responsible for the decision to go into Iraq." While taking responsibility for his actions, Mr. Bush has not taken well to any criticism of his role in over-selling the cas...

the united states bombed and invaded iraq and is now continually killing people in order to be considered friendly the us demands that the iraqis approve of this hostile act those who disapprove of the united states bombing, invasion and continual killing are considered to be terrorists and are often arrested and/or killed the united states is training the iraqis who approve of this hostile act to remain friendly to prove how friendly they are they must continue to kill other iraqis now and for years to come now some iraqis are bit confused and disapprove for some insane reason they think this is a bad idea since their life supporting infrastructure has been destroyed by the united states and they have for many years watched their children and loved ones suffering and dying the natural inclination of the crazy ones is to feel unfriendly toward the united states its occupation its military presence and its continued activities in their land and would do anything in their power to disco...

a retired attaché to the united nations once told me "if you understand the politics and know your way around the bureaucracy , you will find that the US federal government is the most corrupt system in the world and you can make a lot of money here to prove this all one needs to do is to look at how many high government officials are listed as "insiders" with the sec and investigate their holdings in corporations currently operating or will operate under government contract contracts that are war dependent so for instance a pharmaceutical company is researching a new drug which the us government promises to stockpile in the event of a biological attack by investigating the board of directors of that corporation you may notice the name of a high government official when you study the stock of that company you can easily obtain the information about any stock purchases made by "insiders" it will intrigue you to notice who owns exactly how much of what

there are those who believe that anything outside of a nationalistic or elitist point of view is sinful and evil and should be eradicated

Published on Sunday, January 25, 2004 by the Globe & Mail (Canada) In an exclusive interview, repentant Vietnam War architect Robert McNamara breaks his silence on Iraq: The United States, he says, is making the same mistakes all over again by Doug Saunders 'Yet we were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." With those words, written nine years ago, Robert McNamara began an extraordinary final phase of his career -- devoted to chronicling the errors, delusions and false assumptions that turned him into the chief architect and most prominent promoter of the Vietnam war. No historic figure has put so much effort into self-examination: At the age of 87, he has now written three very detailed and analytical books, and starred in one very good movie, devoted to the fundamental mistakes that led the United States into the most politically costly and least successful war in its history. What, then, does he think about Iraq? Until now, the former s...