Tag: inauguration
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obama’s 1st day, 2nd oath & 3rd world war
obama’s day 1: recession, war, ethics & morefrom ap: In a first-day whirlwind, President Barack Obama showcased efforts to revive the economy on Wednesday, summoned top military officials to the White House to chart a new course in Iraq and eased into the daunting thicket of Middle East diplomacy. “What an opportunity we have to…
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obamessiah & the inauguration ad nauseum
from christopher ketcham: The American presidency in its outward show and innermost tendency has since World War II increasingly shown all the markings of monarchy. The president is hovered over and catered to by hundreds of aids and sycophants, his every whim answered at notice. He enjoys a private army in the guise of the…
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obamessiah coronation: yay! we’re out of the frying pan!
new commander-in-chief sworn infrom ap: Stepping into history, Barack Hussein Obama grasped the reins of power as America’s first black president on Tuesday, saying the nation must choose “hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord” to overcome the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. In frigid temperatures, an exuberant crowd of…
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media execs prep for ‘news emergency’
from politico: Media executives must have been paying attention last week when President Bush declared a state of emergency for Tuesday’s inaugural. CNN’s Washington bureau chief David Bohrman, for one, issued a “news emergency” of his own… “It’s the biggest event any of us have ever had to cover,” Bohrman said. While there have been…
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obamessiah coronation: such a big party for so little change
obama’s inauguration financed partially by bailed-out wall st execs from abc: The country is in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, which isn’t stopping rich donors and the government from spending $170 million, or more, on the inauguration of Barack Obama. The actual swearing-in ceremony will cost $1.24 million, according…
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obamessiah coronation: the flock is led to the slaughter
obama’s mass movement gets a new missionfrom kurt nimmo: “People don’t remember what fascism was, I am afraid. A lot of people think, especially here in the U.S. where people are ignorant, people believe that fascism is a purely top down phenomenon,” author Webster Griffin Tarpley told the Dutch journalist Daan de Wit during an…
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obamessiah coronation: the police state celebrates ‘change’
inauguration is climax to 2yrs of increasing security around obamafrom washington post: As jubilant Democrats nominated Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president in a Denver convention hall in late August, the U.S. Secret Service in Washington placed its largest ever order for bulletproof glass. The service requested about 5 tons of “transparent armor,” laminated with…
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obamessiah: inaugural emergencies & the end of the beginning
‘state of emergency’ declared for inaugurationfrom nytimes: It is true, President Bush sounded alarms about Barack Obama during the campaign season. On Tuesday, Mr. Bush went one step further: He declared Mr. Obama’s inauguration an actual emergency. The declaration, though, was not a political statement about Republicans being run out of town. Rather, it was…
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obamessiah: china, masonic inaugural ball & civilian service
obama moves to counter china with pentagon/nasa linkfrom bloomberg: President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China. Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department…
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obamessiah: tests, challenges, cfr cabinet, monsanto & more
dc’s metro system can’t handle incoming obamazoidsfrom washington post: Even if only half of the projected 2 million to 4 million people show up for next month’s presidential inauguration, the Washington region’s roadways and transit systems will be too pressed to handle the crush, planners say. Officials are working out details of their transportation plan…
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feel the change! more neocons & hawks in obama cabinet
obama announces clinton, gates for his cabinetfrom ap: President-elect Barack Obama on Monday announced a foreign policy team led by former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates — both early supporters of a war in Iraq that he opposed and will be seeking to wind down. At a news…
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‘nuke hunters’ go undercover in large crowds
from raw replay: CBS News’s correspondent Bob Orr takes an inside look at a top secret team, sponsored by the U.S. government, which set out to block nuclear threats against the U.S. This video is from CBS’s Evening News, broadcast Nov. 24, 2008.
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obamessiah updates: the coming criminal cabinet
obama’s council on foreign relations crewfrom steve watson: Meet some of president elect Obama’s leading foreign and domestic policy advisors and likely administration members, every one of them a prominent member of the Council On Foreign Relations. Will these people bring about “change” or will they continue to hold up the same entrenched system forged…
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obamessiah updates: status quo, crowds, questions & more
a million dupes could attend obama inaugurationfrom ap: President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration is expected to draw 1 million-plus to the capital, and already some lawmakers have stopped taking ticket requests and hotels have booked up. Some people are bartering on Craigslist for places to stay for the Jan. 20 ceremony when the Illinois senator takes…
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putin hands presidency & nuke suitcase to medvedev
medvedev inaugurated as russian presidentfrom washington times: Dmitry Medvedev yesterday was inaugurated as Russia’s president, pledging to bolster the country’s economic development and civil rights in what might signal a departure from his predecessor’s heavy-handed tactics. Mr. Medvedev took the oath of office in the Kremlin’s golden-hued Andreyevsky Hall, bringing to an end Vladimir Putin’s…