Obama and Empire

 What was true then, is true now.

Obama Administation Specifically Asked For End To Rule Of Law In America...

And you think I am a radical? Guess again...

From RT.



From Politico

President Barack Obama does not plan to veto a defense bill seeking to direct more terrorism suspects into military custody, the White House signaled Wednesday afternoon.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement that changes lawmakers made to the legislation to accomodate White House concerns were sufficient to avoid a veto. The statement was issued just before the House was expected to vote on the conferenced House-Senate version of the National Defense Authorization Act.

What changes? To INCLUDE Americans under those who can be put away without trial and the key thrown away....Change you will HAVE TO believe in.

Is America Caught In The Closed Mind Trap?

From Prison Planet.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Prisonplanet.com
July 29, 2011


...When I wrote that the Republicans’ fixation with slashing the social safety net–a throw away line that is in every news report on the debt ceiling imbroglio–could turn out to be a threat to the separation of powers, several Republican partisans took extraordinary offense. Only a no-good liberal propagandist would claim that Republicans wanted to slash the safety net. My statement of an obvious fact reflected in the Republicans own proposals was all that it took for my critics to conclude that a notorious Reaganite was a Republican-hating liberal.
It is annoying that people who have no idea what they are talking about are so ready to pop off. But it is discouraging to a writer that people are so emotional that they cannot follow an argument. Discouraged, in part by block-headed readers and from censorship of my writings by various Internet sites, I quit my column a while back and signed off.
I was beset by thousands of emails pleading and demanding that I continue to write.
I relented, and the emails from thoughtful readers keep me going.
It is rewarding to hear from intelligent and open-minded people. But as the weeks and months go by, I find it ever more tiresome to tolerate closed minds spewing hate and ignorance. I have become convinced that there are enough frustrated and ignorant people out there to constitute a movement for a Fuhrer.
Washington, which has produced a long list of disastrous policy decisions since the collapse of the Soviet Empire two decades ago, will no doubt continue making incredible mistakes about everything, and we will end up with a Caesar or a Fuhrer...

Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been reporting shocking cases of prosecutorial abuse for two decades. A new edition of his book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, co-authored with Lawrence Stratton, a documented account of how Americans lost the protection of law, has been released by Random House.

26 PERCENT OF AMERICANS DON’T KNOW U.S. DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM GREAT BRITAIN

A third in the South had no clue. This is what we are dealing with here, when we speak of America...

From Think Progress

According to a new poll by Marist, more than a quarter of Americans couldn’t correctly identify the country from which the United States declared its independence. While 74 percent correctly named Great Britain, 20 percent said they weren’t sure and six percent named other countries. In the South, 32 percent of respondents either responded incorrectly or weren’t sure...

Blind Cult of America

Outside It’s America

Meanwhile as the grand ol' US military is murdering civilians across the world, in the 'homeland' things are doing just great.

From Cryptogon.

Woman Killed by Monster Truck at Dallas Strip Club

Man Went on Shooting Rampage After Price of Taco Bell Beefy Crunch Burrito Increased from 99 Cents to $1.49

38 Percent of Americans Fail U.S. Citizenship Test

Senator Bernie Sanders: America Is Now A Banana Republic

From Zerohedge.

An OGAM Weekend Video Extravaganza: Our Fellow Raving Mad Americans (Or Why We Just Might Be Screwed)

These first two are from Cryptogon which got me on the track:











Contrast this with a speech by JFK and you can see the thoughtful America which seems to have been eliminated in favor of the zombie lunatic culture cultivated by our corporate masters exemplified in the previous videos.

The Masochistic Circle

I was listening to the Alex Jones radio show yesterday when a caller called in to say that his mistrust of congress was so strong that he was concerned about ending the Federal Reserve because then their powers would be back in the hands of congress which he didn't trust.

I thought the caller was demonstrating something which is at the very crux of the problems we have today in the USA. Americans are living out what one could describe as a masochistic circle, constantly falling for politicians that undermine the power of the people, their democratic rights and their representative voice in the government. This in turn worsens the government which gives them even less faith that government can do any good at all, so perversely the people actually end up supporting handing over more power to the very corporate manipulators and the international big business 'mafia' that acts against their best interests. I think I said it best in the chart below. I am open to any suggestions or critical comments on this representation that I hope might help understanding at least one side of the dilemma which we face in the US.

Click on the chart below to enlarge it.







See also The American Dominatrix

Post-Anti-Americanism

From Newsweek.

You can still buy an American newspaper at the kiosk in Rome’s Piazza Colonna, but you have to ask the lady behind the counter. She turns from the window, paws through a stack on the floor, and produces an International Herald Tribune, holding it at arm’s length like a day-old fish. It’s the same availability and tone in Venice, the Greek islands, and Istanbul. The implicit question in the transaction is always the same: why would you want to read that thing about that place at this time?
And when you read about America in European newspapers, what you are likely to find is a tone bordering on pity. The U.S. is depicted as a fraying empire of obesity, ignorance, debt, gridlock, stagnation, and mindless war. Sure, the iPad is cool, but it is evidence of what America was, not what it will be again. The stories are not angry, accusatory, or even ideological. It’s worse: they are condescendingly elegiac...

Cheering For Jets Gets You Arrested.

Apparently cheering for the Jets is enough to get you arrested these days. Watch this video.

In an article the police claim the Jet fan was "arrested on suspicion of public intoxication and delaying or obstructing a police officer in his duties."

While we are on the topic of police, read here how some plans are being made for a military police force to be used overseas and also in the U.S.

Bush Pizza

Hats off to this man who cursed at Bush. If we had more people like this perhaps this country could become a good place again. He also received a visit from the Secret Service for speaking his mind. I think Zionist was a poor choice of words which the man used since the evil of the Bush family and the neo-conservative movement is not the same thing as Zionism as far as I understand it. Nonetheless I am sure it was no pleasure to wait around in this pizzeria to let this decrepit old man know what filth he actually is, and he spoke out. Good for him. Anger is not always a bad thing. If it is directed towards those who commit wrongdoing it has a place. I am sure there are many out there who try to live comfortably with the new strain of militarism and delusion in America which has risen in the last decade since 9/11, but obviously some are not going to keep quiet about it and watch college football.

Good for you.

Click here for the link to the video.

Note: The video included in the link contains some disturbing and graphic images.