OT: THE FIX IS IN: OBAMA SELECTED BY THE POWERS THAT BE

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Submitted by partypup on October 17, 2008 - 12:10pm

I acknowledge that the financial crisis has worked solidly to Obama's advantage, and without it I am confident this race would still be a dead heat. Americans simply hadn't been sold on Obama after 8 months and $800 million intended to bombard the sheeple into Obama-submission.

But I remember what this race looked like before the crisis, and I remember how the Democratic primary unfolded. And I am beginning to notice a pattern.

Does ANYONE remember how the media railroaded Gore and spent months praising Bush, ignoring his every flaw and glamorizing every modest accomplishment? Does anyone recall how suspicious it all seemed in 2000? Does anyone remember how the media sold the Iraq War in 2003, with warm and fuzzy embedded reporters, villifying dissenters and defending Bush ad nauseam while ignoring any facts that argued against the existence of WMD?

I do. And it's happening again. I've seen this show before, and I know how it ends.

The media positively loathes McCain and has done so from the very beginning, pre and post Palin. Just as it loathed Clinton. And yet, Obama can do no wrong.

Obama is never lampooned on SNL (we never even got a Messiah joke), while McCain and Palin are skewered mercilessly. Obama's associations with ACORN, Wright and Ayers received brief attention, but nowhere near what any sane person would expect, given that this man intends to receive the highest possible honor and helm our country. Obama is touted as an *expert* on the economy, yet he was the second largest recipient of Fannie/Freddie contributions. The media demonizes McCain as a tool of Wall Street and a Bush clone, while ignoring the fact that Obama has received nearly twice as many campaign contributions from hedge funds and Wall Street brokerage firms. The media criticizes McCain for owning 10 homes, while ignoring the fact that Obama engaged in fraud to buy the one home he owns. The media is deathly afraid to touch Obama. When he was lagging in the polls in early September and McCain had taken a lead, this news was downplayed. Yet when the roles are reversed, McCain is basically encouraged to throw in the towel.

Does any of this sound familiar? It should. It just happened to Clinton 5 months ago. EVERYTHING the woman did was criticized beyond belief. Every primary she won -- regardless of the size of the margin or how large the state -- was downplayed or minimized. Yet when Obama carried a GOP-dominated caucus state with 3,000 voters or a Southern state dominated by black voters, his victories were praised from sea to shining sea. Reports of Obama-sponsored and influenced caucus fraud and abuse were rampant and heavily-documented in Texas and other states, but yet these claims were ignored by the media. When Clinton was nipping at Obama's heels in the closest electoral margin in history, the media constantly bombarded her with cries of, "Why don't you just give up? It's over!" Clinton delegates were blackmailed and strong-armed to flip for Obama at the Convention, yet never a word is mentioned in the media. And does anyone remember the hilarilously staged Convention spectacle in the stadium, complete with a White House set and THEME music? It was as if viewers were being programmed to watch a movie with Obama as president, preparing them for that reality.

Obama has consistently been a poster child for the conservative, corporate-controlled CNN, MSNBC and The Financial Times, the premiere Tools of the Rothschilds. Conversely, the left wing Black Agenda Report, dominated by African American intellectuals, has a hatred and suspicion of Obama of the most extreme sort.

What amazes me is that Democrats can look the other way and embrace Obama so completely when it is quite clear that something is AMISS here. When a man is untouchable, be suspicious.

Look, I'm no McCain fan. He's a crook -- an unpredictable crook, but a crook, nonetheless. But Obama is a crook of equal or greater proportions, born of Chicago: the cesspool in which the most savvy and slimiest crooks are bred. And I've had my own personal encounter with the Obama machine. In April my credit card was hit with an Obama donation for $20. I had never made such a donation. I wondered if there were other victims out there. It turns out there are. His campaign also hit a Kansas City couple (Republicans) for the $2,300 maximum contribution: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/14/report-credit-card-fraud-for-obama/"

I wonder how many other fraudulent *contributions* have occurred?

Let's face facts: Obama has been pre-selected by the Powers That Be. Anyone who can't see that now is fooling themselves. Democrats foolishly believe "Our time has come!" That's b.s. The Powers That Be have conveniently decided to change guards to let the plebians believe that their plight is about to *improve* And why have they pre-selected Obama? That's the burning question. Perhaps They fear Obama less because he has never had an independent thought in his entire life, doesn't stick to any core position, can be encouraged to swing at the drop of a hate, shuns any conflict and can be counted upon to toe whatever line is given him. Perhaps They think he will be a more convincing cheerleader to the hoardes of hungry and homeless that will reach epic proportions in the coming years. Perhaps They are looking to impose fascism with a velvet glove instead of an iron fist.

Who knows?

But of this I am certain: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And the friend of my enemy is my enemy.

I fear and loathe the corporate-controlled media. And whenever their talking heads repeatedly steer the sheeple toward one candidate -- regardless of their party affiliation, regardless of how wonderful and hopeful that candidate sounds -- I quiver. I put my nose up to the air and sniff.

And my animal instincts tell me now that regardless of how slick and appealing the package (Obama) appears and how horrible the other option (McCain) *sounds*, I should be more afraid of the *gift* the media is so willingly giving me. I should be very afraid.

Think, people. If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

Submitted by svelte on October 17, 2008 - 12:42pm.

partypup wrote:

But of this I am certain: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And the friend of my enemy is my enemy.

A poor assumption.

Example:

Turn back the clock ten years.

Sadam Hussien, and therefore Iraq, would certainly not be considered a friend of the US.

Iraq's enemy at the time (and currently) is Iran.

Are you calling Iran a friend of the US?

Submitted by TheBreeze on October 17, 2008 - 12:57pm.

partypup,

McCain is lampooned more than Obama because he is a massive screwup. Just look at what he did last night in the debate. He made this 'Joe' the Plumber guy famous. McCain's whole debate strategy was to paint Obama as a wealth redistributor because Obama was going to tax 'Joe' at a higher rate and give 'Joe's money to someone else.

Well, as it turns out, that was all a crock:

By his own account, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher actually makes about $40,000 a year, which means Obama would CUT his taxes. The business he wants to buy grosses about $100,000 a year, not $250,000. He owes Ohio almost $1200 in back taxes, and there's a lien on his house for an unpaid hospital bill.

http://www.kcbs.com/Leaks-in-Joe-the-Plu...

Under Obama's plan, 'Joe' would pay less in taxes now and less in taxes if he were to buy that plumbing business. Everything McCain said last night was a lie.

And, to top it off, as the article says, Joe may have ties to Keating. McCain is an idiot for not vetting this guy before making him famous. I shudder to think of the damage he could cause were he to be put in charge of an entire nation.

Submitted by afx114 on October 17, 2008 - 1:20pm.

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Submitted by Arraya on October 17, 2008 - 1:20pm.

I think you hit that nail on the head, it's pretty obvious now. I'd even take it a step further and say that Palin was possibley picked for her "divisive" qualities. There is nothing like a gun touting, bible thumper to scare the shit out of the progressive left and a polar opposite of Obama which scares the shit out of the GOP base. Never meant to win, just divide.

I think what also is obvious that came to light recently is the power Fed and Treasury wield over politicians. It's just out in the open now.

TPTB have a lot on their plate right now. They are controlling the the collapse of the US the best they can. Iraq is fighting their security deal for permanent bases, the real reason for the invasion. Iran has stopped trading in dollars, Latin America is starting their own currency and banking system. Pakistan is pretty much up for grabs. Israel is threatening to nuke Iran. Oil production is falling through like a brick in "friendly" countries and concentrating the remaining reserves all in SE asia. Oh, what's a rouge superpower to do?

Still, I wouldn't totally discount Tricky-Dicky Cheney and his band neocon pranksters yet, they could still pull off a game changer. And I don't mean that in a partisan way everybody thinks.

Submitted by DWCAP on October 17, 2008 - 1:22pm.

partypup wrote:

The media positively loathes McCain and has done so from the very beginning, pre and post Palin. Just as it loathed Clinton. And yet, Obama can do no wrong.

Obama is never lampooned on SNL (we never even got a Messiah joke), while McCain and Palin are skewered mercilessly.

I dont know if I agree with alot of points in your statement, but I sure do agree with this one. Even my GF, who is an avid Obama fan BTW, has commented on how it is going too far. Maybe SNL is saving up for the next 4 years, and they can be merceless when they want to, but I get the feeling they are affraid that they will loose audience if they portray Obama as a joke. Many Obama fans have an almost religious Zelot ideology about him, and will stand no insult or preceved injury. I think that is the true reason why he isnt being hit. But that doesnt make the Palin bashing (the repeatedly part) right. Not durring the most hottly contested election in decades.

You forgot one in your rant though. It was all over the air that McCain needed to go on the offensive before the last debate. That he needed to call Obama out on a number of issues such as Campaign finance (obama flipped), oil drilling (we'll LOOK into it isnt policy), health care (socialized health care usually sucks) and economic policy (spend/lower taxes/AND balance the budget????).

Then, after the debate was over, people were all over him for being aggressive, for ingaging Obama, and scoring some points like "If you wanted to run against Bush, you should have run 4 years ago." They called McCain tight, and not prezidental like Obama. THE MAN HAD BOTH ARMS BROKEN AND WAS TOURTURED AS A POW! He can't raise his arms, OFCOURSE he doesnt look pretty. But now we hold that against him, because that isnt "prezidental". It doesnt fit the TV mentality of pretty people doing big things to have someone who is old and white and crippeled. Why do you think FDR hid the wheelchair?

So I dont know about the conspiracy thing. I dont think there is some evil society controlling everything and telling us what to think. Obama is just better at stirring the natural emotions in people. He makes you WANT to like him, because people naturally want to be around pretty, powerful people. His policies are no better/worse than McCains, and he has no real track record to back himself up with, but he has tapped into the black empowerment movement, and the deep seeded and well deserved hatred of Bush, and will become the next president of the USA.

Submitted by nostradamus on October 17, 2008 - 1:29pm.

I don't think anyone in this country is organized enough to orchestrate such a conspiracy.

There's plenty of anti-Obama media coverage out there, it really just depends on where you get your news. Obama certainly looks set to win, and the way McCain's campaign is being handled does look like they are throwing the fight.

Except for in big cities this is the typical American voter. How else can one explain 2 heaping terms of Bush?

Submitted by partypup on October 17, 2008 - 1:42pm.

Most certainly Iran is not currently a friend of the U.S. But I'm sure you know that alliances in politics are very fluid and constantly changing.

In fact, turn back the clock 30 years and you'll find: Iraq and Iran were sworn enemies of one another. The U.S.' enemy at the time was Saddam/Iraq. Therefore, the U.S. made a friend in Iran (which was easily controlled at the time via the Shah). However, the moment that control ended and a theocracy emerged, our friendship with Iran ended.

Everything changes.

That said, I don't understand how you figure that Iraq is currently the enemy of Iran. I think the Iraqi government is so disorganized and the country is so balkanized that it is difficult to determine who its allies are. Moreover, Iran has been giving significant aid to Iraqi rebels and has become very influential in brokering peace and stirring up discontent. In fact, I would venture to say that as between Iraq and the U.S., Iran has decided to forge an alliance of sorts with certain factions of Iraq in a bid to destroy U.S. influence in the region.

In any event, this is beside the point. The fact remains: the corporate-controlled media steered Americans toward Bush in 2000 and 2004, and now it is steering the population toward a different *selected* candidate.

If history is any judge, the media has a very poor record of endorsing good candidates. There are many, many red flags about Obama that the media has simply turned a blind eye to, as it did during 2003 when failing to vet Bush's case for the war. Another lawsuit has been filed this week challenging Obama's citizenship. Both suits may be without any merit whatsoever, but the questions aren't even being asked by the media. That's what is disturbing. I find it odd that (a) Obama is seeking to dismiss the Berg suit without actually having to produce his birth certificate, when he could *arguably* produce a valid certificate and put an end to the issue and (b) the media has not mentioned one word about the fact that a presidential candidate and presumptive winner is being sued for lacking the basic qualifications to be president.

It's just ODD - period.

Submitted by partypup on October 17, 2008 - 1:55pm.

"partypup,
McCain is lampooned more than Obama because he is a massive screwup. Just look at what he did last night in the debate. He made this 'Joe' the Plumber guy famous. McCain's whole debate strategy was to paint Obama as a wealth redistributor because Obama was going to tax 'Joe' at a higher rate and give 'Joe's money to someone else."

Joe the Plumber is white noise. Under either candidate, our taxes are going to go sky high, so let's get away from that red herring. The U.S. economy is DEAD.

The overblown Joe story -- and McCain's lack of eloquence, ownership of 10 houses and notoriously cranky nature -- have no bearing whatsoever on Obama's troublesome Freddie/Fannie contributions, Ayers, ACORN and Wright, the two (2) suits regarding his citizenship, caucus fraud...the list goes on. I'd say all of these are "screw-ups" of an even higher and more disturbing level.

Breeze, watch just 5 minutes of this documentary and tell me you aren't concerned by what voters experienced during the 2008 Democratic primaries: http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/i...

Let's be clear: I am not defending McCain; I am defending the process. I am simply questioning why the media is not doing its job and asking and pursuing the obvious questions about Obama. And I am also questioning why Democrats -- like Republicans -- will look the other way when abuse occurs, when suspicious circumstances abound -- simply because *their* guy is in office.

I was enraged by Clinton's perjury when I was Democrat, outraged by Bush's fraud in 2000 and the ongoing 8 years of abuse of the Constitution, and I am appalled by Obama's mis-deeds, associations with ACORN voter fraud and his ties to Rezko and a deeply-corrupt Chicago machine. I was once a Democrat. No more.

We need to look beyond party and start giving respect to the process.

Submitted by Aecetia on October 18, 2008 - 2:01pm.

Partypup,

As always you are insightful, honest and a true believer. This is a No Koolade zone when you post. Thanks for the unadulterated honesty.

Submitted by jetonejet on October 18, 2008 - 6:48pm.

Simple Math. Mccain=Bush. American+World want < Bush. Therefore Obama wins. Pup, get ready for your new president. I hear he will be giving tax breaks / credits to people that HAVE abortions and he LOVES gay marriage. He will also be redistributing all your wealth to the unemployed... Bah AHHH AHHH!

Submitted by Veritas on October 18, 2008 - 10:02pm.

For a minute there I thought Marion was back. And then the nostalgic moment passed.

Submitted by socrattt on October 19, 2008 - 8:26pm.

nostradamus wrote:

There's plenty of anti-Obama media coverage out there, it really just depends on where you get your news.

Are you joking me? Where can I find some anti-Obama media? Minus FOX, which is awful, I can't seem to find anyone bringing up some of Obama's threatening issues such as his ties to Acorn, Ayers or Wright. I've heard much more about the Keating 5 scandal than I have about Obama's racist spiritual advisor. It is freakish to hear the amount of ignorance on this board. Obama is not our Messiah as all you fancy liberals predict. He is an educated, smooth talking man who has taken advantage of a opportunity and made so many ignorant Americans out of that idea.

When Obama decides to part ways with Israel just remember how bright you thought you were before the election.

Submitted by nostradamus on October 19, 2008 - 9:39pm.

socrattt wrote:
Are you joking me? Where can I find some anti-Obama media?

It's amazing what you can see and not see when you set your mind to it. Let's take a 10-second look at some news outlets.

Here we go:

Today's UT, front page link:
On "Joe the Plumber"

And what's this? A quick search reveals about a dozen SNL skits spoofing Obama. Here's one I found funny: link
IMO the SNL skits spoofing McCain/Palin are more widespread because the characters they spoof do such comical things (the most popular skits used Palin's exact words without modification).

I found several MSM stories negatively covering Obama + acorn + Ayers + Wright in fact I see media saturation with those stories so I'm not going to post links.

I just hope people don't get all their opinions from the MSM.

Submitted by socrattt on October 20, 2008 - 7:49am.

Wow, you actually found one writer who made an attempt to throw the Democratic party under the bus for once. I was walking through La Jolla this weekend and noticed how the DNC had their clan of folks on just about every corner. They infiltrate with their garbage, so I was inclined to speak with one. After my conversation I realized how these elections are won. Scare tactics and propaganda from the left seems to work well for them. As soon as I started bringing up some real issues they pleaded the 5th.

This woman from the DNC had the audacity to tell me that because I had my son with me that she was shocked I wasn't voting for Obama. Are you kidding me? From a moral perspective this country is in the worst place it has ever been. Next thing you know the liberals will allow me to marry my pet!! I'm really starting to wonder how far this country can go morally be before we realize we are in big trouble. Morals aside, I don't know where this country is headed, but it isn't looking good. I am not a fan of McCain, but Obama is so far left he's crooked. Moderation is what this country needs and unfortunately it will be at least another four years before we get there.

Submitted by Arraya on October 20, 2008 - 8:08am.

anagram:
Barack Hussein Obama = Bush bakes a macaroni

Submitted by Arraya on October 20, 2008 - 8:21am.

August 14, 2008
Master Plan or Screw Up? Georgia and U.S. Strategy
By MIKE WHITNEY

Brzezinski is not only the architect of the mujahadin-led campaign against Russia in Afghanistan in the 1980s, but also, the author of "The Grand Chessboard--American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives", the operating theory behind “the war on terror” which involves massive US intervention in Central Asia to control vital resources, fragment Russia, and surround manufacturing giant, China.

"The Grand Chessboard" is the 21st century's version of the Great Game. The book begins with this revealing statement:

"Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power.....The key to controlling Eurasia is controlling the Central Asian Republics."

This is the heart-and-soul of the war on terror. The real braintrust behind "never-ending conflict" was actually focussed on Central Asia. It was the pro-Israeli crowd in the Republican Party that pulled the old switcheroo and refocussed on the Middle East rather than Eurasia. Now, powerful members of the US foreign policy establishment (Brzezinski, Albright, Holbrooke) have regrouped behind the populist "cardboard" presidential candidate Barack Obama and are preparing to redirect America's war efforts to the Asian theater. Obama offers voters a choice of wars not a choice against war.

Submitted by partypup on October 20, 2008 - 7:18pm.

"Brzezinski is not only the architect of the mujahadin-led campaign against Russia in Afghanistan in the 1980s, but also, the author of "The Grand Chessboard--American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives", the operating theory behind “the war on terror” which involves massive US intervention in Central Asia to control vital resources, fragment Russia, and surround manufacturing giant, China.

...Now, powerful members of the US foreign policy establishment (Brzezinski, Albright, Holbrooke) have regrouped behind the populist "cardboard" presidential candidate Barack Obama and are preparing to redirect America's war efforts to the Asian theater. Obama offers voters a choice of wars not a choice against war."

The Brzezinski-Obama connection is genuinely terrifying, A. The Powers That Be have actually found a way to scare and steer the sheeple to an evil just as great (if not greater) than that propagated by George Bush -- solely by using a candidate of *color* to repeatedly tout the words *change* and *hope*.

These are no longer elections. This has now become a survey administered to the general public every four years, a litmus test to gauge the mood of the cattle if there is any fear that they will soon stampede.

Are the cattle feeling restless? Are the cattle beginning to sense that they are being led to the grinder? Then steer them to another, *kinder, gentler* candidate/ranch hand (also employed by the Corporate ranch and well-versed in the tools of slaughter and herding).

But must be very careful! It is essential to give the appearance that the NEW candidate/ranch hand offers the herd a better path -- away from the slaughterhouse. Because if the cattle actually come to grips with the realization that their fate is sealed and their days are numbered regardless of which candidate/ranch hand tends to them, the situation could get dicey VERY quickly.

Nothing spells trouble like 300 million angry cattle bolting from the pen.

Submitted by Arraya on October 21, 2008 - 7:55am.

Here is a report done by the Council of Foreign Relations. It was chaired by Zbigniew Brzezinski and Robert M Gates back in 2004. It is called "Iran: Time for a new approach". It pretty much stated that Bushcos stance on Iran was all wrong.

I guess you have to ask yourself why was the Secretary of Defense colluding with Obama's foreign policy advisor on a policy that is in direct contradiction with the administration he works for?

To me this looks like Obama's people are all ready running the show. Well, they are really not his people, more like he is their people and he is a front man.

http://www.cfr.org/publication/7194/

http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/...

Submitted by Allan from Fallbrook on October 21, 2008 - 9:26am.

arraya: And whenever you hear "Eurasia", doesn't it make you think of Orwell's "1984"?

Maybe it's just me.

Submitted by Arraya on October 21, 2008 - 12:03pm.

Allan from Fallbrook wrote:
arraya: And whenever you hear "Eurasia", doesn't it make you think of Orwell's "1984"?

Maybe it's just me.

lol, Yes I do! I just re-read it about 8-9 months ago. Heck, when Bernake and Paulson speak I think of the "Ministry of Plenty".

Tell me we aren't going to a command economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of...

The Ministry of Plenty is in control of Oceania's planned economy. It oversees public access to food, supplies, and goods. It is also in charge of rationing these goods. As told in Goldstein's book, the economy of Oceania is very important, and it's necessary to have the public continually create useless and synthetic supplies or weapons for use in the war, while they have no access to the means of production. This is the central theme of Oceania's idea that a poor, weak populace is easier to rule over than a wealthy, powerful populace. Telescreens often make reports on how Big Brother has been able to increase economic productivity, even when productivity has actually gone down (see Ministry of Truth).

The Ministry hands out statistics which are "nonsense". When Winston is adjusting some Ministry of Plenty's figures, he explains this:

But actually, he thought as he readjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of time you were expected to make them up out of your head.

This system of ludicrous quotas and falsified results is a reference to the quotas of the planned economy and other statistical falsifications (such as the 1937 Census) of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Like the other ministries, the Ministry of Plenty does the opposite of its name, since it is in charge of maintaining poverty and financial shortages.

Submitted by Allan from Fallbrook on October 21, 2008 - 12:37pm.

arraya: I feel like we're right in the middle between Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World", with a smidge of Terry Gilliam's movie "Brazil" thrown in.

And all of this would be funny as hell if it wasn't completely terrifying.

Submitted by Arraya on October 21, 2008 - 12:40pm.

"Nothing spells trouble like 300 million angry cattle bolting from the pen."

lol, great analogy! TPTB are on a tight rope now. Trying to put the empire of debt down in an orderly fashion and dealing with the ME at the same time.

As I said earlier watch out for the Cheney/neocon/israel faction wanting to switch things up a bit. They want Iran bad and Zbig out flanked them with the mechanisms of control.

http://www.free-press-release.com/news/2...

Washington DC, June 6 – Yesterday's extraordinary simultaneous ouster of the Secretary of the Air Force and the Air Force chief of staff, followed by the naming of Trilateral Commissioner and Carter administration veteran James Rodney Schlesinger to purge USAF generals and colonels, dramatically documents the fact that power in Washington DC is no long in the hands of the Bush-Cheney-neocon clique, but has passed to the Brzezinski-Trilateral faction.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the firing of Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley, citing the failure of the Air Force to maintain the security of strategic nuclear forces, as shown in the infamous rogue B-52 incident of late August 2007, when a B-52 intercontinental strategic bomber with six nuclear armed cruise missiles flew from North Dakota to Louisiana totally outside of the purview of the USAF command control and communications systems. Gates also mentioned that four high-tech electrical nosecone fuses for Minuteman nuclear warheads were sent to Taiwan in place of helicopter batteries, along with other failures.

But they always have this.

http://www.gregpalast.com/rolling-stone-...

Don’t worry about Mickey Mouse or ACORN stealing the election. According to an investigative report out today in Rolling Stone magazine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast, after a year-long investigation, reveal a systematic program of "GOP vote tampering" on a massive scale.

- Republican Secretaries of State of swing-state Colorado have quietly purged one in six names from their voter rolls.

Over several months, the GOP politicos in Colorado stonewalled every attempt by Rolling Stone to get an answer to the massive purge - ten times the average state's rate of removal.

- While Obama dreams of riding to the White House on a wave of new voters, more then 2.7 million have had their registrations REJECTED under new procedures signed into law by George Bush.
Kennedy, a voting rights lawyer, charges this is a resurgence of 'Jim Crow' tactics to wrongly block Black and Hispanic voters.

- A fired US prosecutor levels new charges - accusing leaders of his own party, Republicans, with criminal acts in an attempt to block legal voters as "fraudulent."

- Digging through government records, the Kennedy-Palast team discovered that, in 2004, a GOP scheme called "caging” ultimately took away the rights of 1.1 million voters. The Rolling Stone duo predict that, this November 4, it will be far worse.

There's more:

- Since the last presidential race, "States used dubious 'list management' rules to scrub at least 10 million voters from their rolls."

Among those was Paul Maez of Las Vegas, New Mexico - a victim of an unreported but devastating purge of voters in that state that left as many as one in nine Democrats without a vote. For Maez, the state's purging his registration was particularly shocking - he's the county elections supervisor.

The Kennedy-Palast revelations go far beyond the sum of questionably purged voters recently reported by the New York Times.

"Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics," report Kennedy and Palast, under the cover of fighting fraudulent voting, are "systematically disenfranchis[ing] Democrats."

The investigators level a deadly serious charge:

"If Democrats are to win the 2008 election, they must not simply beat McCain at the polls - they must beat him by a margin that exceeds the level of GOP vote tampering."

I imagine this will be a lively election.

Submitted by Arraya on October 21, 2008 - 4:47pm.

allen: I actually just watched Brazil also. The scene that really resonated with me was when they were in the restaurant eating and their was a bombing. The waiters put a screen up between the wealthy elite and all the carnage so they could eat. I imagine that is going on to some extent today. Iceland's banking system just disintegrated and the shelves went bare in days. Now that was some serious global trickle down economics.

Seriously, I here you. It is very scary. Fear is a natural biological response to danger listen to your instincts, prepare. Don't be collateral damage it the world domination game going on right now.

Submitted by Allan from Fallbrook on October 21, 2008 - 5:06pm.

arraya: You mentioned Negroponte in an earlier post. I spent three years in El Salvador ('85 - '88) and I remember him quite well (unfortunately). Throughout those years, I remembered having to get my head around the fact that the US would support governments like those in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. I fell back on the "greater good" theory: That the US was ultimately the "good" guy and we had to get our hands dirty to fight off communism and the threat it represented.

These last few years have really shaken those beliefs. All of the things we decried about the communists are now on full display here in the US. I would never have thought that reading "1984" would remind me of anything other than the Soviets and the command economy they represented, as well as the omnipresent threat of wars without end. Look at us now.

Submitted by cr on October 21, 2008 - 5:20pm.

Well said. I too am amazed at how Obama's failures have been glossed over in favor of nothing more than his nice smile.

Even on here people slander you for pointing out Obama's faults. I'm surprised to see so many pigg's brainwashed by MSM favortism.

At the risk of further libel I wanted to link this as further evidence of why Obama is wrong. As I've said, I don't think McCain is any better, I'm not voting for either. But unless you claim to be socialist then you should be more informed on who you support

SHOT IN THE FANNIE MAE

Submitted by paramount on October 21, 2008 - 8:51pm.

I believe it was Pat Buchanan who said (paraphrased) that companies who wish to offshore or otherwise send jobs overseas found a willing partner in the Republicans.

Here's a perfect example of those policies in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU

Submitted by partypup on October 21, 2008 - 9:16pm.

cooprider wrote:
Well said. I too am amazed at how Obama's failures have been glossed over in favor of nothing more than his nice smile.

Even on here people slander you for pointing out Obama's faults. I'm surprised to see so many pigg's brainwashed by MSM favortism.

At the risk of further libel I wanted to link this as further evidence of why Obama is wrong. As I've said, I don't think McCain is any better, I'm not voting for either. But unless you claim to be socialist then you should be more informed on who you support

SHOT IN THE FANNIE MAE

Good link, Coop. It is creepy to watch intelligent people cling to any sliver of hope and succumb to even the most obvious forms of brainwashing when they become desperate. I am truly shocked that so many Piggs who are aware of the systemic risks facing our country -- economic, political and social -- nevertheless cling to an irrational belief that Obama is *better*, *different*, the *lesser of two evils*, you name it. This, in spite of the fact that he is a product of the system that created the risks we all acknowledge and has received prodigious amounts of money from the abusers of the system he now condemns. But hey, I suppose it's possible to sell ANYTHING if you are willing to spend $800 million in the effort, eh? Which reminds me...exactly how does one manage to raise $150 million in one month during a Depression...? Ah, I'll leave that for another post.

I'm actually not all that opposed to socialism, in theory -- if it's instituted correctly. But I don't support a system, hastily instituted without input from the populace, that puts taxpayers on the hook for trillions in private debt while giving them nothing in return. For the untold amount of money that we are spending to nationalize banks, brokerages and GSEs, are we receiving national health care? Or guaranteed college and graduate education? Or extensive mass transit infrastructure? No. We find ourselves stuck with a $50+ trillion noose around our necks, crushing taxes, thousands of dollars in student loans for jobs that pay little, working until we are too sick to continue, then dying when we can't afford to receive treatment for what ails us.

If I wanted to move to Canada or Sweden and partake in a TRULY socialist society, I would. But to see a half-a** form of socialism brought to these shores on an emergency basis is nothing less than tragic.

Submitted by socrattt on October 21, 2008 - 9:24pm.

Coop, I am with you again. We talk about the ignorance on this board, but I have narrowed it down to 5 or 6 pigs who always seem to have responses to negative remarks about Obama. At some level we are talking to a brick wall because so many ignorant Americans aren't educated enough to turn off the TV and research the candidates on their own. I agree that McCain isn't a great candidate, but I will do my part to make sure Obama and his left wing staff don't control of this country. I haven't given up hope quite yet that we can keep this inexperienced and arrogant imbecile out of office. We need to a balance and this far left candidate will break the scale!!

Submitted by abc on January 14, 2009 - 11:43pm.

Who does Obama really work for?

Disclaimer: the below doesn’t mean that if you would choose McCain over Obama, that it would be a better choice. Why? Because there are enough reasons to say that both serve to the same boss.

Barack Obama about Energy: "I will invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade."

Details:
Obama is endorsing spending $150 billion dollars in 10 years to develop renewable sources of energy - wind, solar, biofuel, and to encourage energy conservation in homes, offices and public buildings.

It sounds great on the surface, right?

Let’s start with the quote:

“Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen... This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.”
--Rutherford B. Hayes, the nineteenth President of the United States.

Let’s see how words of President Hayes can be applied to Obama, or who will he serve – the Americans or corporations for the expense of Americans?

To answer the question, pay particular attention to Obama’s plan to encourage energy conservation in homes, offices and public buildings… when technologies of virtually free energy are available NOW! Each apartment, house, etc. can be unlimitedly powered with electricity by a small-size generator (you pay nothing for energy, but only for a generator – ONE TIME DEAL). For more details watch the movie:

FREE ENERGY: THE RACE TO ZERO POINT (1 of 11)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTgtOGmcJ2Y

Did Obama mention anything about the described in the movie sources of virtually free energy? NOTHING!!! How is it possible that one of the most influential Americans and an educated man like Obama knows nothing about it? He insists that future will depend on efficient use of biofuel, wind and solar energy. He says nothing about use electromobiles, which do not require to be recharged, TODAY (watch the movie)!!!

Maybe the reason for his selective ignorance are the orders from his employers – oil companies, etc.. There is no money for oil companies to be made on free energy and you cannot control people by restricting it… It is free, just like USA suppose to be… Not!

Therefore, Obama’s project serves in the best interests of super powerful energy companies and the like, not the Americans (in the nearest future biofuel, wind and solar energy will not be able to replace oil-based fuel, but the Free Energy can and it is safe for the environment).

Barack Obama about Education: "A truly historic commitment to education - a real commitment - will require new resources and new reforms."

Details:
Obama's education plan proposes to update the Bush education plan, known as No Child Left Behind, for as little as $8 billion. How did it work so far? Did it get better or worse? Check out the unfortunate fact - this plan should be called as “No kids will be enough to realize how government of/by/for corporations screws the America.”

"To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body: the mind must also be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny."
--Manly P. Hall (an occultist and 33rd degree mason)

This money will be spent for improving existing means of brainwashing. Is it real improvement? Would it really matter how cheap and available this “education” will be?

However, even those proposals for supporting poor education, most likely won’t be funded because according to the experts budgets are already extremely overextended.

Thus, even if Obama will find $10 billion, education will continue be on substandard level.

Who will win in this situation? Obviously, not the people.

Barack Obama about Health Care: "If you don't have health insurance, you'll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress get."

Details:
There is no money for the 45 million people who are uninsured and worse – there are no signs that money will come in the foreseen future. Why? Obama offers projects for spending money, not for making money, so unless your taxes will dramatically increase it will be just another election campaign BS.

Obama has said "every American has a right to affordable health care," but he has not said exactly how he would finance coverage for the 45 million people who are uninsured and some of them illegal. As it is the healthcare cost is sharply rising and benefits offered through the employers are being cut. The economic slump and the bailout for the financial industry may reduce the spending budget even further.

This Obama’s assurance sounds like a pizza deliveryman promising a girl that if she will marry him, he would buy her a new Rolls-Royce on his salary. Yeah, sure.

Barack Obama about Civil Liberties: "We're going to lead by setting the highest of standards for civil liberties and civil rights and human rights."

Details:
As a first step in this direction, Obama is proposing relocation of the torture bay (Guantánamo Bay) from Cuba… to centers in the United States. It’s probably, because he believes that if human rights are violated outside of the US – it’s bad; if in the US – it’s good because the US is a democratic country.

Let’s see, this is a real CHANGE! We had one site of shame, now we will have many! By the way, how much will that cost? How about simply prohibiting torture, revoking President George W. Bush's executive order, disclosed in 2007, allowing the Central Intelligence Agency to use more severe interrogation techniques than permitted under the U.S. Army Field Manual? Obama did not announce such plans.

No mentioning of abolishing the Patriot Act either and even worse – Obama said that he would vote against the PATRIOT Act and when he came to the senate, he voted for it (http://www.votesmart.org/issue_keyvote_d...).

So, if Americans do have hopes for “the highest of standards for civil liberties and civil rights and human rights,” they can bury them until the next President if we will be so lucky to see one with all this CHANGE.

Barack Obama about Security and Citizenship: "We cannot deport 12 million people. Instead, we'll require them to pay a fine, learn English and go to the back of the line."

Details:
In the movie Zeitgeist was shown plans of the “chosen” to create a new country on the base of the US, Canada and Mexico (the Pan-American Union), get rid of dollars (the amero instead) as the first step to making of the World government in the coming New World Order. That’s why now the illegal immigrants are welcomed by the “chosen.”

When the Pan-American Union of three countries will happen – not millions, billions people will become poor in one day. Of course, if many will become poorer, a few will become much richer.

Logically, if Obama proposes legalization of illegal immigrants, this is not what he keeps in mind – he does it to achieve a much bigger goal – preparing legal ground for the planned the Pan-American Union, which is making the US/World poorer and the few rich richer . That’s what Obama most likely is going to do in reality.

The “chosen” are so excited, that they even do not think about – if they will succeed, how the poor will buy the goods of the “chosen?” The “chosen” believe that their advanced methods of brainwashing will make the “two-legged sheep” happy in the high-tech slavery:

"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
--Aldous Huxley, “The Final Revolution,” 1959, speech at a symposium at a University of California Medical School.

But what if it won’t work or it will have devastating consequences?

Barack Obama about Tax breaks: "As president, here's what I'll do: cut taxes for every working family making less than $200,000 a year."

Details:
Obama is going to extend the Bush tax cuts for taxpayers making less than $250,000 a year and promises that he would repeal the cuts for taxpayers making more than that, effective Jan. 1, 2010.

The catch is – this is not a tax cut for those making under $250,000, but a continuation of current Bush’s policy.

If you watched the movie Zeitgeist, you know why the Federal Income Tax is Unconstitutional and it entirely is going into private pockets of a few “chosen,” not for Americans. Thus all promised annual tax credits for low income is not a favor from the government – this is returning of peanuts from stolen by “chosen” money. It should be a judgment, which will return all Americans all money they paid as the Income Tax for the past century.

It should be no more Unconstitutional practice in America (no more the Federal Income Tax).

Does Obama have any plans to provide this real financial help to the Americans and the country? No, he doesn’t.

Who have benefits of Obama’s tax cut? Not Americans, who will be continued ripping of by a few “chosen.”

Barack Obama about Iraq: "Nobody's talking about bringing them home instantly, but one to two brigades a month. It'll take about 16 months to get our combat troops out."

Details:
What is not told is that there are plans that the generals running the war should decide how many troops to pull out and when to do it.

Why? Because it depends on the level of stability, which can be easily sabotaged by mercenaries disguised like Iraqis. A scenario that way played out by high-rank legalized criminals in charge oh so many times… This trick is widely used by the “chosen” in order to proliferate their biggest source of money – business of unending wars.

Judge by yourself – if THEY elect/control the president, why would they let him to end the war?

Barack Obama about Iran: "I would be willing to lead tough and principled diplomacy with the appropriate Iranian leaders at a time and place of my choosing."

Details:
Obama said that he could send envoys initially and would meet personally with Iran's leaders only if he thought he could advance the American agenda. Thus, if Iran will have some disagreement with US oil corporations who collectively are in charge of the President – no diplomacy with Iraq.

So, what do you think – do the oil corporations want cooperation with Iraq or the war is a much more beneficial solution for them (high oil prices, etc.)?

It means that most likely the Obama’s promises about diplomacy with Iran, won’t go further meaningless words.

It means, in addition to the wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, Americans most likely will face a war with Iran, when Iran will acquire a nuclear weapon. THEY wait for it (using nuclear weapons by Iran during the war) to use it as an excuse to take over the World. Can you imagine the consequences?

Barack Obama about NAFTA: "I think we should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage to ensure that we actually get labor and environmental standards that are enforced."

Details:
Yes, Obama can legal pull out the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a distinction from other trade deals. But, as trade experts say, the political and economic costs of scuttling the deal would be enormous.

Does Obama have any plan to boost the economy to afford this initiative? No really, just spending. Is it a surprise that Obama's union supporters have not put changing NAFTA at the top of their agenda, focusing instead on issues like China's exchange rate.

Most likely, such behaviors mean that Obama knows he cannot afford environmental issues, nor does he care about them, as clearly indicated by his support of biofuel using genetically altered cord that can poison entire crop on the global scale, eradicating this major food staple. Our future generations might kick a pretty big “thanks” in the face of Obama for ruined environment, given they survive the policy of CHANGE.

Isn’t it amazing fact that Obama won the president race without having any platform for boosting the economy, but a list of huge expenses? Maybe during four years of his presidency he will find a worthy solution to the problems of the US economy, maybe not. If Americans did not care if Obama will walk the economy out of the woods, why Obama should care about the economy either?

The bottom line:

Logical analysis of Barack Obama projects shows that he, like G.W. Bush will continue working in the best interests of the few for the expense of Americans.

Particularly, there are reasons to say that Barack Obama will officially destroy the US Constitution and will replace it with Hitler-like manifesto (the expended Patriot Act); the US dollar will disappear, ... – all it will be accomplished through uniting US, Canada and Mexico into a new country - the Pan-American Union (not the US http://www.infowars.com/articles/nwo/nwo...). It will bankrupt vast majority of companies big and small, it will make the middle class poor and the poor poorer, etc.

In addition to that it is likely to expect that US troops not only won’t be pulled out from Iraq, but a new war with Iran will begin (most likely with using nuclear weapons by both sides).

Because Obama does not have any substantiation to resolve environmental problems as he promised, due to this, environmental disasters might become tragically devastating.

Continuing G.W. Bush’s educational programs will make the next generation less capable of resolving the described and other problems.

Obama will give no real financial relieve for low-income class (for the majority) – he will continue what G.W. Bush had done. There is no money for any relieve; however, always there are money for war.

There will be no tax break, but extension of the Bush tax. The Unconstitutional Federal Income Tax will remain (http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/). Those who rip of America will prosper…

Again – please do not think that McCain would be a better choice – it’s just a game in the Republican/Democrats to cheat the public – it really doesn’t matter who from the chosen will win – people will always lose:

"The so-called Left-Right political spectrum is our creation. In fact, it is accurately reflects our careful, artificial polarization of the population on phony issues that prevents the issue of our power from arising in their minds... We control the Right-Left conflict such that both forms of liberty are suppressed to the degree we require. Our own liberty rests not on legal or 'moral' rights," but on our own control of the government bureaucracy and courts which apply the complex, subjective regulations we dupe the public into supporting for our benefit."
--The Occult Technology of Power

The past two Presidential elections (with G.W. Bush) have already been hijacked (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/video.html...) and what makes you think that the current presidential elections with mid-term elections were not hijacked too?

There is a possibility that the doomsday date predicted by The Mayan Calendar and The Book of changes prophecy (I Ching) is true, because those two independent sources have an EXACT match. Also, consider that the “chosen ones” planned/plan all their events according to the Mayan Calendar. At the very least, this mean that on December 21, 2012, the “chosen ones” will try to put an end to human race and, logically, Obama is the president of/by/for the “chosen ones” who will make it happen (WW III or a worse scenario).

People with common sense have to stay together and do whatever positive they can – only then you’ll have power not only to challenge the obviously corrupt way elections are being handled, but to turn the country out of the way to abyss.

Are you ready?

Submitted by afx114 on January 15, 2009 - 12:17am.

Whoa, my mind is blown. The Dude abides.