Tag: Obama
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3/11 Newspurge: This Too Shall Pass
UK patients’ medical records go online without consent // Biden reassures israel of US commitment // Bilderberg founder, Dutch Prince Bernhard ‘was member of Nazi party’ // Jay-Z loses credibility for a seat in White House situation room // Defense contractor agrees to pay $400m criminal fine
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Interview w/David Wallechinsky of AllGov.com
He’s been called a ‘human encyclopedia’ by Vice Magazine. He’s written a number of books on everything from Olympic history to the worst dictators in the world. David Wallechinsky is a globetrotting historian & he’s also the editor-in-chief of AllGov.com…
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Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest
When it comes to civil liberties, the Obama administration has come under fire for often mirroring his predecessor’s practices surrounding state secrets, the Patriot Act and domestic spying. There’s also Gitmo, Jay Bybee and John Yoo.
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Kucinich Forces House to Vote On Pullout From Afghanistan
In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy, lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war.
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Defcon 3/9: Einstein, CyberShield & Serious Defects
Obama’s cybersecurity initiative puts NSA in driver’s seat // Fmr DNI calls for ‘re-engineering’ the internet // Time’s running out – Einstein’s coming: Cybershield disclosed by White House // Uncle Cyber Scam wants you // Cyberczar Schmidt says ‘there is no cyberwar’
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9/11 Updates: Back In the News With a Vengeance
Yahoo says 9/11 tops last 15 years’ online news searches // Iran’s Ahmadinejad calls sept 11 ‘big fabrication’ // ABC News visits a 9/11 truth conference: trying to link researchers & academics to Pentagon Metro shooter // Huffington Post kills Jesse Ventura’s piece on 9/11 // Washington Post on ‘lunatic’ 9/11 ‘conspiracy theorists’
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Econocrash Updates: Fed, Failure, Welfare & the New Ghost Towns
Massive bank failures due, says oversight panel // Obama appoints CFR/Trilateral/Fed operative to debt panel created by another executive order // IBM layoffs blamed on offshoring // American reliance on govt at all-time high // New ghost towns in West Virginia: industrial communities teeter on the edge
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Change: Obama Signs One-Year Extension of Patriot Act
President Barack Obama has signed a one-year extension of several provisions in the nation’s main counterterrorism law, the Patriot Act. Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama’s signature Saturday.
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cybersecurity bill to give president new emergency powers
related: former intel chief predicts ‘devastating’ cyber attack from thehill.com: The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation. According to an aide familiar with the proposal, the bill includes a mandate for federal agencies to prepare emergency response plans in the event of a…
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Obamessiah Updates: The More Things Change
Gadhafi: Obama fears Israel will assassinate him like it did JFK // Video: James Traficant says AIPAC & ‘The Lobby’ run US foreign policy // Senate votes to extend Patriot Act
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New World Next Week #20
This week we go into schools spying on students via webcams, Obama’s rebranding of the Iraq War as political semantics and, finally, some good food news from Oregon.
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obama rebrands iraq war as ‘operation new dawn’
prince of peace prize acts like changing name is ending war… from afp: President Barack Obama’s administration plans to rebrand its military operation in Iraq “Operation New Dawn,” beginning September 1, a Pentagon memorandum shows. The memo, signed by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, shows the Pentagon approving a request to switch the name of…
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obama breaks yet another key campaign promise
from paul joseph watson: In the face of rapidly growing populist anger, the Obama administration has signaled that it will fall back on a form of power well known to all successful dictators – rule by decree – and that Obama will use the very instrument he campaigned against to ram through the new world…
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drugwar persists despite mixed messages & propaganda
despite obama promise, dea still raids medical pot growers from raw story: On Thursday, a Denver news station interviewed Chris Bartkowicz about his medical-marijuana operation in the basement of his home. Bartkowicz, confident of his compliance with state laws, boasted of its size and profitability. “I’m definitely living the dream now,” he told 9News. The…
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2/11 newspurge: reckless, unraveling & economic punch
9/11 updates: new aerial photos of wtc on 9/11 released* an attack from harvard law on the escalating 9/11 truth movement: ‘cognitive infiltration’ of 9/11 conspiracy groups* mystery of 9/11 ‘unraveling’ says major japanese weekly: ‘the official story is not convincing’* tsa detains 21yr old traveler with arabic flash cards & asks him: ‘how do…