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Denounce Obama's Fraud in Continuing "Unitary Executive" Based on Afghanistan Crisis
Lyndon H. LaRouche
September 23, 2009 (LPAC) "By his recent statements, President Obama has based his continuation of George W. Bush's 9-11 emergency powers on a supposed terror threat from Afghanistan. When he announced on Sept. 10 that he was continuing those emergency powers, he said: "Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2009."
But earlier, on Aug. 17, he had told the Veterans of Foreign Wars that: "The insurgency in Afghanistan didn't just happen overnight and we won't defeat it overnight. This will not be quick, nor easy. But we must never forget: This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people."
Justice This Time Around: Will Goldstone's Report Deliver?
By Ramzy Baroud
'We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of the era of impunity,' Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Institute for Palestine Studies, was quoted by IPS in response to the findings of a 574-page report by a four-member United Nations Fact finding mission. The mission, led by internationally-renowned former South African supreme court justice and chief prosecutor in the international tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, investigated alleged war crimes committed by Israeli troops in Gaza in a 23-day bloody, unprecedented onslaught against a largely defenseless population.
CODEPINK: Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Robert Singer
CODEPINK wants to end the war in Iraq.
It is now 2009, when will Jodie Evans, Diane Wilson and Medea Benjamin realize the obvious: We aren’t leaving Iraq for at least 100 years.
The House, Senate and the Bush Administration are gone but the troops are permanently deployed in the "Cradle of Civilization.” [1]
Jodie, Diane and Medea: You can’t “bring the troops home” if you don’t know why the U.S. is building permanent headquarters, a $592 million "Embassy in Baghdad.”
The Great Fed-Financed Dollar Decline and Stock Market Rally of 2009
By Rodrigue Tremblay
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd and longest-serving US president
“This great and powerful force—the accumulated wealth of the United States—has taken over all the functions of Government, Congress, the issue of money, and banking and the army and navy in order to have a band of mercenaries to do their bidding and protect their stolen property.” - Senator Richard Pettigrew, Triumphant Plutocracy, 1922
AMERICAN NETWORK NEWS / THE FLASHING OF FICTION
Allen L Roland
Fox News, with its timeless flashing of fictions, plays its self - important role in exercising its corporate grip on opinion in America. However, Online news continues to gain traction as more Americans begin to take the time to dig beneath the fictions to find the truth:
People are having their money Seized by the Government, as they are Giving Billions/Trillions Away to Banks
By Sherrie Wilcox
People are having their money seized right now by the government, while they are throwing Billions and Trillions out the window to their corporate friends and banks.
What branch of the government is doing that?
The IRS of course. The IRS right now - is seizing people's bank accounts and taking every dime they have in the account. But they are letting the bank first take their $100 from the account for giving the money to the IRS. In fact, they are taking every dime not caring what money is outstanding in checks, so the people who have their money taken, then have to pay multiple check bouncing charges on both sides.
The government obviously couldn't care less about people's situations and they are willing to leave them without any money to pay a mortgage or buy food.
VISITING GRANNY GRUNDY - A real life parable
by Mary Pitt
I was taking a drive on the country roads as a break from sitting alone in the house, feeling sorry for myself for having been widowed recently and facing the many pressures involved in re-organizing my life whiile keeping ahead of the bills. The beauty of my beloved prairie was blinding, reminding me of my continuing fight to save my vision. What if I could never again see the clusters of golden flowers blooming beside the road? They seemed to be waiting for the ripening grain to join them as it matures and dazzles us with brilliance for a brief while before being lost in the stark white of winter.
How Israel Targets and Suppresses Opposition to Its Annexation Wall
by Stephen Lendman
Established in 1992, the Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association helps Palestinian prisoners, and works to end torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions, other forms of abuse, and unjust, unequal treatment in Israel's criminal justice system that handles Jews one way and Palestinians another.
In July 2009, in cooperation with the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (Stop the Wall) and the Palestinian Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association, Addameer published a report titled "Repression allowed, Resistance denied" that documents resistance to Israel's apartheid wall and the "staggering level of repression, arrests and violence" by Israeli authorities.
The Silence of Freedom
Link: http://ddjango.blogspot.com/2009/09/silence-of-freedom.html
I know I'm not the only one, but I have to ask ...
Who's watching the store? Who is leading the Cabinet? Who is corralling the Democrats? Where does the buck stop? Instead of a presidency, we've bought into nothing more than a traveling wild west variety show, complete with gunslingers and the Snake Oil Salesman-in-Chief. The deluge of words over the weekend was simply over the top. For once, Faux Noose had the right idea in snubbing the guy.
Maybe it just ain't so great that we got ourselves a president that can string a few intelligible words together. At least Dubbleduh tended to be hilarious on the podium from time to time and we really didn't have to listen to him very much. This Obama cat just won't shut up. Nothing more than a cheerleader, but it remains to be seen just where the team is and where the game plan is supposed to get us.
It's not just the volume of words in his grand speechification tour. It's that the content still means no more than "hope" and "change". This man brings nothing to the table but thousands of vague generalities.
SCRAMBLING BRASS, Turning tides on occupations - Activists', worker resistance inside and outside Iraq and Afghanistan
Excerpted, edited by Carolyn Bennett
In a statement on Monday ANSWER Coalition coordinator Brian Becker is looking at parallels and at the growing rift in Washington and in the real world about the U.S. war on and occupation of Afghanistan.
"The U.S. public largely opposed the invasion of Iraq while being generally supportive of the invasion of Afghanistan," he says. "That is now changing. Majority sentiment has moved, and will continue to move, in opposition to the plans for a protracted war and occupation in Afghanistan. There is both uncertainty and debate within the Obama administration and among the Pentagon brass about what to do in Afghanistan: continue to send ever more troops; seek a truce with the Taliban and create a government of 'national unity' that includes the Taliban and either Hamid Karzai or another U.S. political puppet; or both.
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