12,000 protesters surround White House

Protesters unite, President responds
(treehugger.com/HuffingtonPost.com)

Obama delays Tar Sands oil pipeline decision until 2013

(Democracy Now!) Environmental activists are claiming victory after the Obama administration announced Thursday it will postpone any decision on the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline until 2013.

The announcement was made just days after more than 10,000 people encircled the White House calling on Pres. Obama to reject the project. This was the second major action against the project organized by Bill McKibben’s 350.org and Tar Sands Action.

(thinkprogrees.org)

In late August and early September, some 1,200 people were arrested in Washington, D.C., in a two-week campaign of civil disobedience.

"We believe that this delay will kill the pipeline," says the Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein. "If it doesn’t, if this pipeline reemerges after the election, people have signed pledges saying they will put their bodies on the line to stop it." More

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Sunday protest: Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline

PROTEST SUNDAY, NOV. 6, 2011 D.C. AND L.A.
Washington Post ad: Obama, say no to tyranny; reject Keystone

• We will return to DC to encircle the White House asking Obama to reject the tar sands pipeline.

This is a call to action. It was issued by a diverse group of movement leaders. The goal is to bring together a massive rally on November 6th in Washington DC. To join the rally, sign up.

We need your help. People got out of jail in DC after two weeks of civil disobedience that led to 1,253 brave people ending up in handcuffs to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

It was the largest such action in decades. And because of their leadership, lots has begun to happen:

The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu along with seven other Nobel Peace Prize winners wrote a letter to the president asking that he block the pipeline. They acknowledged the actions of those in DC:

“These brave individuals have spoken movingly about experiencing the power of nonviolence in that time. They represent millions of people whose lives and livelihoods will be affected by construction and operation of the pipeline.”

At Pres. Obama’s first public speech since the sit-ins ended, a hardy bunch of University of Richmond students unfurled a huge banner demanding that the president veto the pipeline -- followed by similar actions in Columbus, Ohio, Raleigh North Carolina, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wilmington, Delaware, and many others.

Meeting on the Rosebud Sioux reservation last week, Native tribal leaders from both sides of the border and private land owners from South Dakota and Nebraska signed a "Mother Earth Accord" opposing Keystone XL and the tar sands.

These are the people who started this fight, and they’re being joined by everyone right down to Nebraska Cornhusker football fans who booed lustily when a Keystone ad showed up on the Jumbotron at a recent game. The next day the university ended their sponsorship deal with Trans-Canada Pipeline.

(Amy Dewan/HuffingtonPost.com)

Even as we issue this letter, Canadian activists by the hundreds are risking arrest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. And brave protesters are trying to block shipments of heavy equipment to Alberta from Idaho and Montana.

These are remarkable signs of continent-wide protest.

Huge wildfires driven by the worst drought in Texas history have destroyed towns and killed people; the biggest rainfalls ever recorded have done similar damage in New Jersey, New York, and Vermont. There is real momentum for action and real need.

We have less than 90 days to convince the president not to approve the pipeline. We need to keep using our creativity and bodies as a part of this struggle -- to struggle even though there is no guarantee of victory. Here’s the plan in three stages... More

Do you think I enjoy lying and being the spokesman for the military-industrial complex?

The Greatest President We Never Had

Pat Macpherson (Wisdom Quarterly)

Will B.S. Obama be JFK or just the third Pres. George Bush? A relative of Dick Cheney, BSO (Barry Soetoro Obama) has been the most effective instrument of the "military-industrial complex" since Pres. Eisenhower named it.

He has done everything the Right wanted and more. But due to intransigent racism and a hatred of all things "liberal" or even slightly left of moderate, the Right does not like him. The Left is humiliated, betrayed, let down, and holding on to hope.



It only seems to get worse with Herman "Koch" Cain, Mitt "Mormon" Romney, Michelle "Palin" Bachmann, Chris "Christ" Christie, Rick "Big Pharma" Perry... Will the Powers That Be ever allow the people a voice?

Do Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul have any chance whatsoever -- even if they get all the votes? Not unless they give in to the economic hitman. And to think, the "change" we voted for was to go from war criminal Bush to a new MLK, Jr.

Drape me in a flag, and I'll make them proud (as I sell them out).

Happy Birthday, B.S. Obama (cartoon)

U.S. dollar banknotes blur as the U.S. debt ceiling rises and its credit worthiness is cut sending world stocks tumbling towards 11-month lows on Monday, overshadowing relief that the European Central Bank was buying bonds of strugglers Italy and Spain (Xinhuanet.com/Reuters).

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Xinhua) - Obama on Monday called leaders of Spain and Italy over the euro zone debt crisis and the riotous situation in Syria, the White House said. More



(thismodernworld.com)

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Ask Obama: Today on Twitter

Obama takes message to public via Twitter
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama answers questions from Twitter users today (Wednesday, July 7, 2011). But the US president is not confining his answers to 140 characters. Obama will verbally answer questions posed on the short-messaging service during a "Twitter Town Hall" being streamed live from the White House at askobama.twitter.com.

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Here are our questions, 140 characters at a time if necessary. Feel free to use any or all of it in your tweets to our fearless leader:

Dear Mr. President, you are doing a great job helping show the world that race is no obstacle to greatness. Now, what's this about allowing only 10,000 troops to come home from Afghanistan? You increased troop levels by 50,000 in two surges. And that's not counting all the "advisers," CIA agents, and private mercenaries (Halliburton, Xe, Blackwater, etc.) Meanwhile, the US war on Iraq rages. Then you illegally started another war on Libya and get uncharacteristically cocky when Congress calls you on it? And yet you still find time to stoke war in Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Are these the "thousand points of light" of G.H. Bush New World Order? Or what exactly is the point of waging a secret war on Pakistan with drones and bombing raids? Or your war on truth and disclosure by pursuing Bradley Manning and Julian Assange over WikiLeaks? Establish the peace. It's easy: End these wars. We have "corporate business" interests there, it's true. Let our corporations wage their own wars. We cannot afford it. We have too much debt and too much taxation, and for what? For invading other countries in offensive "kinetic actions"? Sir, are we a peace-loving country or a violent empire? Let's work here at home on creating jobs and stabilizing this economy. We agree with Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, who say we have to keep your feet to the fire to make sure you achieve the greatness you're capable of. The world does not need another Justice Clarence Thomas or Herman Cain. War is PROFITABLE, we know, but there are other ways for our corporations to make money instead of siphoning American citizens via foreign wars. At least stop the propaganda about all the good we are doing for the world by polluting and bombing it. Thank you. By the way, you're a great public speaker. Keep it up.

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AP poll-cooking: Obama approval jumps

Poll-Cooking With AP: Obama Approval at 60% -- With 46-29 Dem-GOP Split

Tom Blumer (May 11, 2011)
The chefs in the kitchens at AP-GfK (a joint effort of the Associated Press and GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications) have been working overtime cooking up a scrumptious dish for fans of Barack Obama and the Democratic party.

After tasting the output this morning, the AP's Liz Sidoti and Jennifer Agiesta could hardly contain their glee (also saved here for future reference, fair use and discussion purposes):

President Barack Obama's approval rating has hit its highest point in two years -- 60 percent -- and more than half of Americans now say he deserves to be re-elected, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll taken after U.S. forces killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

In March, the same poll had the president's approval rating at 53%. The graphic which follows, obtained from the the poll's "topline" at AP-GfK's web site, reveal that the AP pair enjoy feasting on empty calories: More

Scepticism over Osama bin Laden video

This is Akbar Khan, the owner of the house, watching Osama bin Laden on TV according to neighbors who knew him before Pres. Obama ordered his murder, according to the BBC.

(BBC News, May 8, 2011) The release of video footage seized [allegedly] from Osama bin Laden's compound in northern Pakistan was part of the continuing effort by the US to convince doubters that the al-Qaeda leader was killed in last Monday's raid. But people in Abbottabad seem sceptical about the authenticity of the films, as the BBC's Orla Guerin discovered when she took to the streets of the town where bin Laden was said to have been hiding. Source

• US releases Bin Laden home videos

Osama bin Laden died in 2001

(Uniorb.com) Although the corpse of bin Laden would never be found, various sources alluded to the circumstances that led to his death in the Middle East.

According to United Press International (Oct. 31, 2001), bin Laden underwent clandestine kidney treatment by Dr. Terry Calloway (Canadian urologist) for 11 days in July at the American Hospital in Dubai. During his hospital stay, bin Laden met with a U.S. CIA agent, according to French daily Le Figaro and Radio France International. The day before the infamous September 11 terrorist attacks, bin Laden entered a military hospital for further kidney dialysis treatment in Raqalpindi, Pakistan, reported by CBS (Jan. 28, 2002).

In an interview with CNN (Jan. 19, 2002), Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf hinted, “He (bin Laden) is dead for the reason he is a ...kidney patient.” Musharraf also mentioned that bin Laden took two dialysis machines with him into Afghanistan.

A few days later, Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN (Jan. 21, 2002) gave his professional assessment of bin Laden’s medical condition based on the videotape broadcast by al Jazeera on December 27, 2001. He explained that bin Laden’s ghastly appearance -- “grayness of beard, paleness of skin, very gaunt sort of features” -- is often associated with chronic kidney failure or renal failure. He also noted that bin Laden couldn’t move his left arm probably due to a stroke because people suffering from kidney failures have a higher risk for stroke. Dr. Gupta pointed out that dialysis machines require electricity, clean water and a sterile environment to function properly. Without an operational machine, a patient could only survive for less than a week.

During December 2001, the U.S. Air Force, after cornering the Taliban combatants in the mountainous Tora Bora, relentlessly blasted the area for days, unleashing an estimated 1.8 million kg of explosives, including the deadly bunker-busting bombs to implode caves. According to the Pentagon, radio transmissions of bin Laden's voice were detected regularly until December 14, 2001.

An Egyptian paper posted on December 26, 2001, ran an obituary on Osama bin Laden whose death resulted from lack of proper medical care for “serious lung complications.” A Taliban official told the Pakistan Observer that he saw bin Laden’s face before the burial in Tora Bora where some members of bin Laden’s family, friends and al Qaeda fighters gathered for his funeral. Asked whether he could pinpoint the spot where bin Laden was buried, he answered, "I am sure that like other places in Tora Bora that particular place too must have vanished," implying that it was obliterated by U.S. aerial bombing. More

Someone was killed, but not Bin Laden

Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)

Obama has consistently repeated that Bin Laden was captured then killed

The US military has not been looking for Osama bin Laden. The Bush and Obama administrations are well aware Bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11. (The FBI says it has no hard evidence linking "Usama" to 9/11).

For a decade, OBL has been used as a fall guy, a pretext for US foreign wars of aggression -- "We're protecting ourselves from possible trouble by making other countries fear and hate us" -- domestic spying, and the loss of civil rights.

He is a bogeyman just as any "Emmanuel Goldstein" is used by totalitarian-style regimes. The "Patriotic Act" confirmed that our government is interested in that level of domestic social control and spying. Thanks to Bin Laden, Bush (a.k.a., Dick Cheney and Colin Powell) had a pretext to invade a country they had plans to invade long before 9/11.

The administration's inner circle goes way back, even before Bush, Sr. was president; when he was Ronald Reagan's vice president, Donald Rumsfeld was their envoy. That Reagan/Bush administration felt betrayed their former friend and ally Saddam Hussein. As a result, they began to draw up plans to depose Saddam, invade, and extract Iraq's petroleum resources.

Obama -- with many key figures and almost all of its policies held over from Bush, Jr's administration -- decided to approve the killing of someone. After assassinating that someone in Abbotabad, Pakistan in the hopes that it was multi-millionaire Bin Laden, the administration realized its mistake. There was no way it was going to admit that. Why would it? Osama bin Laden has been dead for a long time.

The CIA and others have been using his mysterious "recordings" and threats to promote an agenda of increased domestic spying and tyranny. Worse than that, the entire Al Qaeda/Brotherhood (1984) myth has been promoted to justify all of it illegal wars and activities.

Realizing the man they killed was no more Bin Laden than it was Stewie Griffin, Obama had a choice -- admit it and be taunted as a failure or claim credit, pretend to dump the body in the Arabian sea, and leak the lie in decades to come.

It's not difficult to falsify forensic evidence, for instance using blood from his sons, CIA-created "facial recognition" software, and a dolled up photo it doesn't feel like releasing since their forensics document-Photoshop Team couldn't even do a convincing job on the long form birth certificate.

Colin Powell, people will remember, went in and altered CIA analysts' reports to make the 9/11 connection with gruesome consequences:

• making everyone afraid of Osama Bin Laden as the ultimate enemy (just like "Emmanuel Goldstein")
• raiding Afghanistan as punishment for the Taliban allegedly being hospitable to Bin Laden
• justifying pre-emptive war in Iraq, taking our rights
• setting up dictators in Arab countries while pretending to want nothing but democracy for them
• funding new US spying agencies like the Homeland Security Administration in addition to our many other secret agencies (NSA, NSC, CIA, Secret Service, Pentagon cells, FBI, ad nauseum), secret CIA prisons abroad, torture chambers...

20 problems with Obama birth certificate

Wisdom Quarterly

(buzzfeed.com)

We have to be embarrassed when our own government can't forge a document well enough to satisfy even amateur forensic analysts. There are unanswered problems. First, there are 20 problems with the "document" itself, an obviously fabricated electronic image. Second, for a long time the Hawaiian governor claimed there was no birth certificate, that it didn't exist. Suddenly here it is. Third, the Social Security number Obama once used is not one a normal citizen would have been given. Lawyer Orly Taitz, who knew and went to school with Barry, explains:

Orly Taitz Raises a New Issue: Obama’s Social Security Number
Jonathan Weisman (Christian Science Monitor)

Orly Taitz, the California dentist and lawyer who has led efforts to question President Barack Obama's birth place, has moved on to a new [problem] now that the White House has released his long-form birth certificate.

In an interview with Washington Wire, she now says that Mr. Obama once used a Social Security number that was not assigned to him. She [also] claims he graduated from Columbia University in nine months, not two years, as he claims.

“I have to say that this is a step in the right direction,” she said of the release of the birth certificate, “just as the release of the Watergate tapes was a step in right direction by Richard Nixon. And like Richard Nixon, there’s a good chance this will cost him his presidency.”

"The President of the Universe's job is not to wield power, but to distract attention away from it."

Explanation
Wisdom Quarterly (ANALYSIS)
What does it all mean? Barack "Barry Soetoro" Hussein Obama is president of the corporation (US, Inc.), not of the United States as we know it. But as it turns out, allegiance to something other than the country may be the oath taken by other presidents as well. (George Washington was able to levy taxes unconstitutionally by taking a special oath to something other than the sovereign country he was meant to preside over). George Bush and Dick Cheney, the two worst persons ever to hold the office, had no legal right to do so because they were from the same state. But that did not stop them or the (s)election process. It's just nice to know where we stand with presidents rather than being lied to constantly. Obama wants war. Obama wants debt. Obama wants whatever the military-industrial complex wants him to want (more nuclear reactors, more oil dependence, more corporate bailouts, unthinkable man made disasters and the Marshal law that goes with them...). All that Bush-Cheney wanted the (Orwellian) hard way, Obama was installed to give us the easy (Brave New World Huxley) way. The bottom line is, we are not allowed to question because to question something with so many implications makes one a "Birther," a "conspiracy theorist," a "nut." Truth is truth, and truth will out, whatever the truth may be. That the wagons in the mainstream media circle around to protect the lie or that Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are "convinced" and quiet down is no surprise. This is not Right versus Left; this is lifting the veil of why things in our world really happen in spite of the cover stories. Smile. Sometimes it's enough to know. And we are very blessed to know more than people at almost any time in history. Thank goodness the powers that be selected a very genial, handsome, and above all well-spoken "universal president."

Top 20 Conspiracy Theories That Have Already Sprung Up Around President Obama’s Birth Certificate

(Politics Buzz) It didn't take long to find inconsistencies and mysterious anomalies with President Obama's long form birth certificate. And this is only within the first few hours of the document's release. Give the Birthers a few days to come up with some really juicy stuff.

1. The patterned background is too seamless for a document kept in a bound volume [for decades].
2. The “Date Accepted” is four days later than “Date of Birth.”
3. Smudges in box next to name of attendant.
4. M.D. who signed the document conveniently died eight years ago.
5. Two mysterious Xs above “twin” and “triplet.”
6. Unexplained “8991” on document's right side.
7. “41” at to right of document looks suspicious.
8. Birth certificate of someone born at the same hospital a day later has a lower number.
9. There is no official seal.
10. Still says “Certificate of Live Birth.”
11. Instead of “African” under father's race, “Colored” or “Negro” would have been used in 1961.
12. The type for “Caucasian” is too perfect, not possible for a typewriter from 1961.
13. No footprint.
14. No birth weight.
15. Signature of mother and attendant are too similar.
16. Under hour of birth, the “M.” in “P.M.” is a different font.
17. Address for Obama's childhood home is the middle of a highway.
18. Hawaii's Governor until recently claimed there was no birth certificate.
19. Obviously Photoshopped. Layers!
20. We all know his real name is Barry Saetoro [Soetoro] and he changed his name to Barack Obama after visiting Pakistan. More

• All of these theories have been culled from The Smoking Gun's article on the birth certificate and the resulting comments.
• Will poorly forged document stop Birthers? (Christian Science Monitor)
• VIDEO: Problems with the short-form Certificate of Live Birth
• VIDEO: Rightwing G. Gordon Liddy calls Obama "illegal alien"