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Tim Geithner's Legacy of Shame
by Stephen Lendman
From January 26, 2009 - January 25, 2013, he was Obama's Treasury Secretary. He and Fed chairman Bernanke engineered crisis conditions.
Bankers profited hugely. They still do. Ordinary people were scammed. Geithner's gone. His legacy speaks for itself. His background showed what to expect. He spent three years at Kissinger Associates.
From 1988 - 2002, he held various Treasury posts. He left to become Council on Foreign Relations international economics department senior fellow.
From 2001 - 2003, he was IMF Policy Development and Review director. He left to become New York Fed president.
Medical Negligence in Israeli Prisons
by Stephen Lendman
Palestinians in Israeli prisons are grievously abused. Conditions resemble gulag hell. Treatment is deplorable. Fundamental human rights are violated.
Geneva's Common Article 3 requires "humane treatment for all persons in enemy hands, specifically prohibit(ing) murder, mutilation, torture, cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment (and) unfair trial(s)."
Fourth Geneva's Article 56 states:
"To the fullest extent of the means available to it, the Occupying Power has the duty of ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of national and local authorities, the medical and hospital establishments and services, public health and hygiene in the occupied territory, with particular reference to the adoption and application of the prophylactic and preventive measures necessary to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics. Medical personnel of all categories shall be allowed to carry out their duties."
R U Sandy or R U Hooked
By Melanie Lamport
Gun Control takes center stage following another in a series of horrific mass shooting. The latest one at the Sandy Hook Elementary School left 20 children dead in Newtown Connecticut.
The corporate controlled media and President Barack Obama have launched a full-scale attack on the 2nd amendment in response to the latest episode of a lone-nut gunman going on a rampage-killing spree. [1]
Obama breaks down while thanking supporters
Obama is emotional at his final campaign event in Iowa
"Beautiful little kids" (wipes tear and pauses)President Obama, wiping a non-existent tear, wants an administration wide task force to help him curb gun violence, BUT only in America. Obama continues to order the child-killing drone massacres overseas. And in one of those coincidences that don’t happen very often, yesterday (January 13, 2013), a prominent American blogger and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who spoke against the targeted killing operations carried out by US assassination drones, was found dead in New York City.
The mass shootings in Tucson, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Sikh Temple, and the Aurora Theater, are so full of anomalies, inconsistencies and unanswered questions that you have to wonder if it was an Alien Entertainment production about the most unrealistic assassination that humans on Earth would believe. Operation Rampage Killing
Sandy Hooked
Where are the bodies or photos of bodies or crime scene photos? What about a surveillance video or still images from the scene or a timeline that makes some sense? [2]
Empire Project Failing in Syria Says French Foreign Minister
Michael Collins
The survival of the Syrian government represents a major failure of the empire project to recolonize and dominate energy rich Middle Eastern and North African states.
In an abrupt change from months of anticipatory triumphalism, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius admitted that Syrian President Bashar Assad will not be leaving power any time soon. This is a radical departure from the NATO script and that of their stenographers in the corporate media. We've been fed a mix of articles over the past months predicting Assad's imminent demise, filled with speculation on how post-Assad Syria will look after he's gone. (Image)
Reuters reported the Fabius remarks on January 24:
"Things are not moving. The solution that we had hoped for, and by that I mean the fall of Bashar and the arrival of the [opposition] coalition to power, has not happened."
Obama's War on Whistleblowers
by Stephen Lendman
At perhaps the most perilous time in world history, exposing vital truths takes on greater urgency than ever.
Freedom in America is endangered. Truth telling and dissent increasingly aren't tolerate. Whistleblowers are called threats to national security.
The ACLU says "leak detection, prevention, and punishment is cause for alarm."
"National security must be protected and properly classified information must be kept safe. However, this cannot be at the expense of a free, open and informed society."
Intifada Activism Needed
by Stephen Lendman
Six-five years of mass slaughter, destruction, dispossession, occupation, persecution, apartheid, and slow-motion genocide is enough.
Freedom requires committed activism. Liberation depends on working for what Israel denies. The alternative is more of what's too intolerable to bear.
Daily headlines reveal what Palestinians endure:
IDF invades Jenin pre-dawn. Homes were stormed and ransacked. Two Palestinian youths were arrested. Nearby villages were targeted. Nonviolent Palestinians were kidnapped.
Israel's Likely Coalition Partner Government Threatens Humanity
by Stephen Lendman
Extremist Israel officials favor wealth, power, privilege and dominance. Tuesday's elections hardened fascism.
Palestinians have the greatest cross to bear. Jews have their own. Humanity very much is threatened. More on that below.
Expect occupation harshness to be worse than ever. Palestinians are blamed for Israeli crimes. World leaders target them.
On January 20, Electronic Intifada contributor Amena Saleem said Britain's Foreign Office blames Gazans "for bringing suffering on themselves." Doing so exposed its "one-sided view."
Is Opposing Obama's 'Kill List' & Drone Missile Murders Being Anti-Black?
Larry Pinkney
“You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” -Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.” -Frantz Fanon
It is perhaps the irony of ironies in this 21st century that the United States power structure has deliberately re-installed as its imperial leader a man of so-called 'color' who, under the auspices of his very own extrajudicial and infamous 'kill list,' has appointed unto himself the right to murder whomever he chooses in this nation or anywhere else in the world.
Wall Street's in Good Hands with Mary Jo White
by Stephen Lendman
On January 24, Obama nominated Mary Jo White as SEC head. "You don't want to mess with Mary Jo," he said. Others have different views. More about her below.
Washington is Wall Street occupied territory. Regulatory oversight is absent. Earlier New Deal reforms are gone.
The Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 followed the Securities Act of 1933. Under the Constitution's interstate commerce clause, it required offers and security sales to be registered. State "blue sky laws" previously governed them.
The 1934 law regulated secondary trading of financial securities. It established the SEC under Section 4 to enforce the new act.
Later came the 1939 Trust Indenture Act, the 1940 Investment Company Act, the same year Investment Advisors Act, Sarbanes-Oxley in 2002, the 2006 Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, and Dodd-Frank in 2010.
Obama the 44th President Says Goodbye to Obama the 43rd President: Great in search of Good
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD
We, as Americans, need to ask ourselves what all this is about? Why is our government so provocative toward Islam, Russia, China, Iran? What purpose, whose purpose is being served? Certainly not ours…………Where do we go from here? If not to nuclear destruction, Americans must wake up. Football games, porn, and shopping malls are one thing. Survival of human life is another. Washington, that is, "representative government," consists only of a few powerful vested interests. These private interests, not the American people, control the US government. That is why nothing that the US government does benefits the American people. (Paul Craig Roberts, “The Next War on Washington’s Agenda.” OpenEdnews: 01/12/2012)
In an age of knowledge-based and information technology enhanced culture of change and emerging new world of One Humanity, leadership is no longer primitive makeup, individualistic absolutism displaying pomp, pageantry and princely proclamations; it is more transformational, people-oriented, listening and learning and being accountable to the will and interests of the people. What a leader must offer is an enriched and cohesive undertaking of moral, intellectual and political values - a VISION of the FUTURE – a comprehensive Picture of Tomorrow – how to serve the people and to remedy the past blunders, wickedness and failure articulating a moving spirit of optimism that future is going to be different and with strength and vision, the leader will make it happen for the best of people, human manifestation, peace and co-existence and happiness and opportunities for participation, freedom and justice to all.
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