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		<title>Obama and the Un-fooled Dissident Few</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an established historical fact, one that was quipped frequently and sardonically by Abraham Lincoln in his years as a lawyer, that it is entirely possible to fool quite a few people some of the time, but an impossibility &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/10/12/obama-and-the-un-fooled-dissident-few/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is an established historical fact, one that was quipped frequently and sardonically by Abraham Lincoln in his years as a lawyer, that it is entirely possible to fool quite a few people some of the time, but an impossibility to fool all the people all the time, especially an informed segment of a republic&#8217;s voting age population. A very good 20th Century example of this fact was the varying perceptions of Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party within the German Reichstag, by the voting citizens of the Weimar Republic, after Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor, in 1933, by the German President Paul von Hindenburg.</p>
<p>The mainstream German media (newspapers, radio, and motion pictures) had, by 1936, been forcibly intimidated by the Nazi government into publishing and broadcasting only Nazi propaganda to the German people. The publishers of the smaller newspapers and magazines in various German cities, who refused to go along with the fascist Nazi agenda, were harshly seized by the brown-shirted SA and, eventually, the SS, and shipped-off to concentration camps. Yet, despite the attempts of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, to indoctrinate the entire German populace with Nazi lies, approximately 18 percent of all the adult Germans had, and maintained, a silent but adamant assurance that Adolf Hitler was not the Christian that he had claimed to be, but, rather, an atheistic megalomaniac. From 1933 until 1945, around 43 percent of the adult Germans remained unsure about Hitler&#8217;s Christian principles, while fully supporting the Nazi regime politically and militarily. It was actually the 39 percent of the adult German citizens, and 99 percent of the German soldiers, sailors, airmen, and the Gestapo, who fully believed in Adolf Hitler, that constituted the means of monitoring and controlling the behaviors of the German dissidents and eventual doubters throughout the course of the 2nd World War.</p>
<p>Do these percentages from the past sound recently familiar? In the Friday, August 20, 2010, edition of the &#8220;Washington Post,&#8221; a Pew Research Center poll was published showing that 18 percent of the American poll-sample firmly believed that Barack Obama is not a Christian, but a Muslim. A surprising 43 percent of those polled reported that they were unsure whether Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, and only 34 percent of the respondents reported a firm belief that Obama is Christian. Interestingly, in 1936, the dissident 18 percent of the population were absolutely correct in their belief about Hitler not being a Christian, despite what the controlling majority proclaimed. Beneath the current Pew poll results was the article written by Jon Cohen and Michael D. Shear, which seemed to reflect the words of Joseph Goebbels strongly worded 1934 German press release, &#8220;Adolf Hitler is, without a doubt, the Christian ambassador for God.&#8221; Cohen and Shear disputed the unbelieving 18 percent of the recent Pew poll by saying, &#8220;Americans increasingly are convinced &#8211; incorrectly &#8211; that President Obama is a Muslim, and a growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.&#8221; If, perhaps, the &#8220;Washington Post,&#8221; the &#8220;Los Angeles Times,&#8221; the &#8220;Chicago Tribune,&#8221; &#8220;The New York Times,&#8221; &#8220;The Wall Street Journal&#8221; and other major U.S. newspapers readily dispute the growing belief among adult members of the American electorate that Obama is not a Christian, but a Muslim, there will be a desperate clamor in the Democratic Party leadership to assert that the voters are absolutely wrong. This might also be the case if CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC and even PBS weigh into the controversy by calling the voters ignorant of the facts.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, if the American voters go to the polls in November 2010, with an increasing number of them saying, &#8220;If Obama looks like a Muslim, talks like a Muslim, and acts like a Muslim, he must be a Muslim,&#8221; the Democratic Party is in for a big shock, when Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the majority of the infamous Democrats who voted for fascist Obamacare, and the economically disparaging Stimulus Bill, are voted out of Congress. But it&#8217;s much more of a crying shame when a standing U.S. President has gone to the unscrupulous lengths that Obama has gone to keep his long form birth certificate and educational records away from public disclosure, in order to keep from being exposed as a person basically ineligible to be President. A good point to remember, and ponder, about Barack Hussain Obama is that when he was under Islamic instruction as a young person in Indonesia, he had a different name and had taken upon himself a Muslim bond and obligation that, according to the &#8220;Koran&#8221; and Islamic tradition, cannot be broken. And a noted scripture in the &#8220;Koran,&#8221; endorsed by Mohammed himself, is that Muslims are allowed, and encouraged, to deceive the infidel by lying, in order to subdue and control that infidel. This fact, in and of itself, is enough to create reasonable doubt about Barack Obama&#8217;s Christian faith in the minds of reasonable</p>
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    Norton R. Nowlin holds M.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Tyler plus one year of law school at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, in San Diego, California.  He also holds an ABA-approved paralegal certification from Edmonds Community College, in Lynnwood, Washington, is a 1985 graduate of the 72nd San Diego County Sheriff&#8217;s Academy, at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California, and worked professionally as a California peace officer. In addition to the foregoing, Mr. Nowlin&#8217;s educational prowess extends 70 semester hours beyond a master&#8217;s degree in sociology, history, and law. Mr. Nowlin is presently a paralegal, free-lance writer, and political commentator/journalist. He is a published op-ed essayist for the &#8220;Seattle Times,&#8221; while also a freelance fiction writer and published poet. He is married, the father of three grown children, and resides with his wife, the renown math and science tutor, Diane C. Nowlin, and their two very intelligent cats, in Northern Virginia.`<br />
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		<title>George Bush Gives A Speech Barack Obama Style</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every President has a unique style of speaking and dealing with issues. Barack Obama recently gave his first State of the Union address. In listening to him speak about all the problems the country faces in 2010, it brought to &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/10/12/george-bush-gives-a-speech-barack-obama-style/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>              <P>Every President has a unique style of speaking and dealing with issues. Barack Obama recently gave his first State of the Union address. In listening to him speak about all the problems the country faces in 2010, it brought to mind the early days of the presidency of George Bush and his early speeches when he had to deal with the worst attack against the United States homeland in its history and the prospect of an uncertain future where the seemingly invulnerable United States was now facing the very real possibility of additional attacks. What if George Bush&#8217;s style was more like the style of Barack Obama? What if the two Presidents could be merged and you could create a new President by the name of George W.H. Obama. It is early 2002. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States&#8230;</P><P>President George Obama: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: America this evening is a nation called to great responsibilities. And we are rising to meet them. In the normal course of events, Presidents come to this chamber to report on the state of the Union. My fellow citizens, the entire world has seen for itself the state of our Union &#8212; and it is strong. We have seen it in the courage of passengers, who rushed terrorists to save others on the ground; we have seen it in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. We have seen the unfurling of flags, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers. We are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.</P><P>One year ago, I took office amid an underfunded military and a depleted and dispirited CIA. High level security agencies lacked the ability to share information. We were attacked in 1993 in New York&#8217;s World Trade Center and the previous administration handled it as if it were a bank robbery, rather than an act of war. We were attacked at Khobar Towers and the previous administration again looked at it as an isolated incident. 17 sailors were killed and 39 were injured when two members of Al-Qaeda blew up their small craft next to the USS Cole in Yemen &#8212; President Clinton&#8217;s response? He said &#8220;Their tragic loss reminds us that even when America is not at war, the men and women of our military still risk their lives for peace. &#8221; Not at war President Clinton? You may not have been at war with them but they were certainly at war with us. How many acts of terrorism would it take for the previous administration to wake up to the danger? Even when our soldiers suffered the humiliating indignity of being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, President Clinton continued to treat terrorist attacks as if they were no worse than a robbery at a local deli.</P><P>We had at least four known documented opportunities to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and the previous administration turned it down. As for Iraq, I know that many of you in this chamber are apprehensive about the possibility of going to war there. I have to remind our distinguished members of congress that if the previous administration did not show weakness and allow weapons inspectors to be thrown out of Iraq, we would not have lost years of intelligence gathering and we might not be in the position now where war is necessary.</P><P>In short, we inherited a disastrous mess from the previous administration. A year later, however, we have taken action and have corrected some of the horrific mistakes of the last eight years. We have removed the wall of separation between various intelligence gathering agencies that proved so ineffective in dealing with terrorism. We have taken terrorists off the battle field and not treated them as common criminals but as the enemy combatants that they are. We have housed them in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where the military can interrogate them and get the needed information to prevent future attacks. Our goal not being one to simply punish those caught committing acts of terrorism, but to prevent future attacks. We will use common sense intelligence gathering, not all of which that can be revealed for obvious reasons.</P><P>There is a fine line between trampling the rights of individual citizens and common sense surveillance. Let&#8217;s remember where the blame for this lies. We are reacting to the real threat posed by terrorists who are obsessed with destroying our country. The ineffective and irresponsible way that Washington has dealt with this problem over the last eight years has made certain procedures necessary in order to protect the country. Because of the reckless and irresponsible behavior of Washington, we are forced to allocate money to a brand new office &#8211; The Office of Homeland Security. We need to upgrade procedures and computer systems of our Intelligence gathering organizations and we will need to increase funding for the military to make up for the funding shortages of the last eight years. This is a tremendous expenditure that I would rather not have to make but thanks to the previous administration, I have no choice.</P><P>Because of all the money we now have to spend on security, coupled with the recession that we inherited, we will need to spend much of the budget surplus. Let me make this perfectly clear. The budget surplus was built on a house of cards. There was a new medium &#8212; the internet &#8212; that busted out during the previous administration. The Dot Com companies created a lot of investment in an unpredictable, untested environment. Their failure was inevitable. Their business practices were shabby and wasteful. Coupled with the tragic cuts to the military and to our intelligence services, the budget surplus of the previous administration was bound to end. You can only put paper clips and rubber bands on the military and the economy for so long before you need to go in and spend the money you need to really fix things, which my administration is prepared to do.</P><P>With all the problems that I inherited from the previous administration, I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and say to my lovely wife Laura Michelle, &#8220;Oy Gevalt! What have I gotten myself into!&#8221; But for the good of the nation I will trudge on. For the nation needs me now more than ever. I am the President. I won the election. I am Commander-In-Chief, the leader of the free world. I am George Obama.</P><P>I n fact, the economic problems that we inherited are on the verge of being solved. I am going to cut taxes which will cause investment opportunities. I predict that due to these tax cuts the unemployment rate will drop by the mid 2000s to a miniscule 4.5% so that despite the increased spending on the security of our country, made necessary by the previous administration, we will still manage to revive the economy and keep our country safe at the same time.</P><P>Let us not forget what happened on September 11, 2001. It is my fear that as the decades go by and this horrific event fades into the past, we may be lured into the same false sense of security that got us in trouble in the first place. We weren&#8217;t attacked for anything we did, we were attached because of the values we espouse, and these are good values. They are not values to be ashamed of. They are values worth defending and we must be vigilant in defending them.</P><P>It is my hope that in the months and years ahead, life will return almost to normal. We&#8217;ll go back to our lives and routines, and that is good. Even grief recedes with time and grace. But our resolve must not pass. Each of us will remember what happened that day, and to whom it happened. We&#8217;ll remember the moment the news came &#8212; where we were and what we were doing. Some will remember an image of a fire, or a story of rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever.</P><P>The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. Fellow citizens, we&#8217;ll meet violence with patient justice &#8212; assured of the rightness of our cause, and confident of the victories to come. In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom, and may He watch over the United States of America.</P><P>Thank you.</P><P>Note: The second, last and next to last paragraphs are taken directly from speeches given by George W. Bush.<BR /></P><br />
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		<title>Health Insurance Companies Switch Support To Republicans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the Editor: For the 2010 election season, industries have ramped up their political campaign contributions&#8211;hoping to also ramp up their influence. This year, lobbying group America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans, as well as the five largest health insurance companies, have &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/10/11/health-insurance-companies-switch-monentary-support-to-republicans/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>For the 2010 election season, industries have ramped up their political campaign contributions&#8211;hoping to also ramp up their influence. This year, lobbying group America&#8217;s Health Insurance Plans, as well as the five largest health insurance companies, have given three times as much money to Republican candidates for the Senate and the House of Representatives.</p>
<p>The question many may have is: why did health insurers donate money to Democrats in the first place? For the most part, lobbyists do not have specific political ideologies; they will donate to whatever party they believe can most succeed in bringing about their goals. Last year, President Barack Obama was triumphantly inagurated, and the Democratic party controlled (albeit narrowly) both houses of Congress. In other words, if anything was going get done, it would have to get past Democrats.</p>
<p>Healthcare reform was always one of the Obama administration&#8217;s first priorities. Insurance companies contributed to Democratic politicians in order to make them more sympathetic to their interests in the debate. In many respects, they succeeded&#8211;insurers are largely responsible for helping torpedo the government-run public option supported by most liberals. They also managed to retain the lucrative individual mandate, which supposedly leads to more <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.vitalonehealth.com/affordable-health-insurance">affordable health insurance</a> by bringing more customers into the pool.</p>
<p>However, the political climate is changing. The Tea Party movement has fired up many conservatives, and they have been speaking at the polls by defeating moderate GOP incumbents in their primaries in favor of far-right candidates. Democrats are predicted to lose their majority in Congress, so interest groups must get in good with the potential new members of Congress, so that they will &#8220;owe them one&#8221;.</p>
<p>At the same time, President Obama&#8217;s popularity ratings have been slipping. In order to shore up support, he has begun painting the health insurance industry as a villain, as opposed to an ally. The Department of Health and Human Services is tasked with writing specific guidelines the industry must abide by, and there are some indications that those policy predictions will be stricter.</p>
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		<title>Why Oh Why Is President Obama Bankrupting US?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To President Obama bankrupting America fits into his plan to grow the size of government and thus make more people dependent on the state. Obama&#8217;s first Chief of Staff was Rahm Emanuel (he resigned 10/1/2010).  In addition to having an &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/10/11/why-oh-why-is-president-obama-bankrupting-us/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To President Obama bankrupting America fits into his plan to grow the size of government and thus make more people dependent on the state. Obama&#8217;s first Chief of Staff was Rahm Emanuel (he resigned 10/1/2010).  In addition to having an abrasive personality and a foul mouth, he will probably be remembered most for saying, &#8220;A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.&#8221;  A crisis gives a reason for existence and a savior mentality to all the bureaucrats, politicians, agencies, workers, organizations and probably even most lobbyists hanging around.  A chance to, &#8220;Do things that they normally could not do,&#8221; is what Rahm Emanuel later told a liberal audience at a speaking engagement.  The deflation economy nosedive leading into the <strong>GREATER DEPRESSION</strong> is the crown jewel of a crisis. What  a stroke of luck having control of both houses of Congress.  They can pass whatever legislation they want.  They pass laws with out even reading them or writing them for that matter.  They vote for anything as long as it grows the size of government.  This is socialism run amok.</p>
<p>The President Obama bankrupting us with socialist wealth redistributing mistakes, meddling and Marxism is criminal. But, that is his plan &#8211; to bring our country down so a one-world-government/new-world-order can take over.  This smacks of fascism also.  Fascism is when government totally controls everything &#8211; especially business and the military. Hitler and Mussolini were fascists.  In fact, Hitler&#8217;s government was called the <strong>NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS&#8217; PARTY</strong>.</p>
<p>A new book, Roots Of Obama&#8217;s Rage, by Dinesh D&#8217;Souza maintains our president has an anticolonialist agenda attributable to his alchoholic African socialist father Barack Obama Senior.  Barak Obama Junior&#8217;s self written autobiography is even titled DREAMS OF MY FATHER.  Obama Sr. hated Britain and other nations of the West (U.S.) for invading, pillaging, looting and occupying the third world countries like his native country Kenya. Obama Jr. wants federal oversight of all aspects of American business and plans to tax them to the moon for ripping off the rest of the worlds resources.  The dreams of Obama Sr. are fast becoming our nightmare.</p>
<p>Business has caught on to the fact that he is out to get them.  Businesses are so uncertain and afraid that they have stopped expanding, hiring, borrowing, leasing, lending and buying.  What a great way to make the jobless <strong>GREATER DEPRESSION</strong> worse.</p>
<p>ObamaCare is a prime example.  Government suddenly taking over one sixth of a free market economy.  When has government involvement not made things more inefficient, more costly, with worse service and more red tape?  A provision of the 2,500 page act requires businesses to file a separate IRS code 1099 for each and every transaction over $600.  More job killing rules and red tape.  Look a the U.S. postal system or state DMV if you want to know what I mean.  Now, the Obama administration is letting many groups like the teachers union opt-out of the system.  Weren&#8217;t they the ones paying for the ads in favor of nationalized heath care?</p>
<p>So, Obama Jr.&#8217;s mission, according to Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, is to get America to return it&#8217;s ill gotten gains.  Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich. He is forcing the big bad corporations back into line with mountains of Fed oversite, reams of new laws, wealth redistribution and burdensome increased taxes.  Unfortunately, Juniors anticolonialist thinking also means lowering our standard of living, being sympathetic to muslim (freedom fighters), reducing nuclear defenses by 2/3, not blocking Irans nuclear ambitions, bowing to foreign dignitaries and anything else that will get America all wraped up around the axle.  </p>
<p>It seems the darn government is always getting larger and more intrusive in our lives.  Every year we loose more <strong>FREEDOMS</strong>. Multiply that tenfold when we get a real economic meltdown like we are having now.  Same with a national security (9-11) or a natural disaster like Katrina in New Orleans or even a man made disaster like the Gulf oil well spill(boy did the Obama Administration drag it&#8217;s feet and mismanage that one).  Mainstream liberal media keeps covering up all the cancerous acts.  They so wanted Obama to succeed.  They don&#8217;t even want to admit that President Obama is bankrupting them also.</p>
<p>We out to change our country&#8217;s name to the <strong>UNITED STATES OF DENIAL</strong>.</p>
<p>Why did it take so long to plug the Gulf oil well?  Obama wanted it to last.  Don&#8217;t forget President Obama bankrupting the US is his mission in life.  The whole country laid down like an old dog while he continues to work to pass all kinds of programs to hurt the oil industry, halt new oil drilling, make carbon dioxide a toxic (we breathe it out and all plants need it to grow) green house gas and cap-and-trade taxes and restrictions that will absolutley slay jobs.  They are a smokescreen for taking our <strong>FREEDOM</strong>.  Other countries offered to loan us their oil skimmer boats. He delayed giving a presidential OK to suspend the Brown Act for months. This meant not allowing the foreign oil cleanup boats to leave port and help with our problem  The Brown Act controls boats in U.S. waters and harbors. George W. Bush suspended it in just days after hurricaine Katrina hit.</p>
<p>A disturbing turn of events over at the IMF, International Monetary Fund, hints at an expanded role for this world organization as &#8220;<strong>BIG BROTHER</strong>&#8221; and controller of the purse strings for the G-20 nations.  They are quoted as saying to build &#8220;peace through economic stability.&#8221; HA! HA!  I&#8217;m telling you right now it is a one-world-government/new-world-order fascist plot and we had better watch out for these power elite demagogs.  The main demagog is Mr. Strauss-Khan, at the 12 story IMF world headquarters at the corner of 11th and Pennsylvania Ave., Washington DC.  Down the street from the anointed one &#8211; Barack Hussein Obama &#8211; fascist country wrecker &amp; job killer and wannabe messiah. </p>
<p>Why do you think Obama got the Nobel peace prize and the 1 million dollars that goes with it the first months in office without doing anything?  It was an up front down payment from the power elite to their socialist secret agent for all the one-world-government fascism work Obama would be doing later on.  A contract on our lives. Hitman Obama is weakening and ruining America with fascism, socialism and wealth redistribution. Right under our noses! You had better find out more about President Obama bankrupting America.</p>
<p>This is all part of a bankster power elite control conspiracy that has been going on since they set up their first agent of destrution the Federal Reserve in 1913.  It was the Federal Reserves job to ruin the once strong America and weaken it&#8217;s currency under the smokescreen of economic crisis, wars and now climate change mania.  Thanks to fraudulent leaders like Franklin Roosevelt carrying on the banner of socialism and huge government the dollar then is now 4 cents.  Go figure!</p>
<p>Read THE CREATURE FROM JEKYLL ISLAND &#8211; A Second Look at the Federal Reserve 1994, by G. Edward Griffin if you don&#8217;t believe me.  Both American polictical parties are in on the conspiracy, by the way.  Every word is true!  Chapter two is titled &#8220;Bailouts Name of the Game.&#8221;  We the taxpayers pay and go deeper in debt with each bailout.  We have been duped.  It&#8217;s a big myth.  The Federal Reserve is not even federal or a bank or subject to an audit.  Ot&#8217;s a private corporation. Who owns it?  The Rothchilds? The Morgans?  The Warburgs?  The control freak banksters aways financing both sides of wars all throughout history are the culprits.  Now, they&#8217;ve got their boy President Obama bankrupting the once strong America in a deflation economy leading into the <strong>GREATER DEPRESSION</strong>.</p>
<p>Watch out!  Fascist President Obama bankrupting the once strong America will lead to unholy alliances with the following dirty devils and one-world-government enablers: IMF, Trilateral Commision, Council of Foreign Nations, United Nations, World Bank, G-20 and finally any new world cap-and-trade organization they try to come up with. </p>
<p>PS  The <strong>GREATER DEPRESSION</strong> started in 2000 with the dot com<br />stock climax and will last into 2016 and mean a drop of 90 percent in most assests and 30 percent unemployment.</p>
<p>This is <strong>TYRANNY</strong>!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I&#8217;d see the day Hugo Chavez would become the dictator of Venezuela. I was in Maracay, Venezuela in 1991-92 when Chavez led a revolution and was jailed. Today he&#8217;s one of the most popular DICTATORS in South &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/01/22/hugo-chavez-barack-obama/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I never thought I&#8217;d see the day Hugo Chavez would become the dictator of Venezuela. I was in Maracay, Venezuela in 1991-92 when Chavez led a revolution and was jailed. Today he&#8217;s one of the most popular DICTATORS in South America. Everyone who has disagreed with him has been run out of town or shut down. There is NO FREE PRESS in Venezuela. And, Barack Obama &amp; Company want it that way here in America!  </p>
<p>How brazen to have it told that the Obama machine (aka Chicago style politics) &#8220;controlled the press&#8221;. Anita Dunn, a senior White House aide, has boasted of how Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign managed to &#8220;absolutely control&#8221; the press during the 2008. It seems like everyone knew that except the press!</p>
<p>But that was back then, this is now and Obama doesn&#8217;t like Fox News!</p>
<p>Two-and-a-half years into the Nixon presidency, White House Special Counsel Chuck Colson compiled a twenty person “enemies list”. The Colson list included then-CBS reporter Daniel Schorr and the late columnist Mary McGrory. It looks like the Obama administration is off to a head start. Not even having completed a year in office, President Obama&#8217;s most senior aides have a bead drawn on Fox News. Unlike the Nixon enemies list which was secret, the Obama enemies list is hidden in plain sight.</p>
<p>Talk about brazen and arrogant!</p>
<p>On Sunday, White House Chief of Staff and Chicagoan Rahm Emanuel announced that Fox News was “not a news organization so much as it has a perspective.” At the same time, Senior White House aide and Chicagoan David Axelrod went on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; and beseeched George Stephanopoulos and his fellow journalists to shun Fox. Axelrod said, that Fox was “not really a news station . . . .” Axelrod added “other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way, and we’re not going to treat them that way.”</p>
<p>We have a serious political mentality going on here folks.</p>
<p>White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday pointed to two top-rated opinion shows on Fox News as the reason why the Obama administration has castigated the network as an illegitimate news organization. Gibbs weighed in on the controversy after several top White House advisers have gone on other channels to criticize Fox News&#8217; coverage of the administration, dismiss the network as the mouthpiece of the Republican Party and urge other news organizations not to treat Fox News as a legitimate news station.</p>
<p>The White House also appeared to stand by its effort to urge other networks to isolate and alienate the channel. Gibbs said Tuesday that it&#8217;s up to the White House Correspondents Association to decide whether Fox News should continue to be part of the White House pool which covers President Obama.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to delineate for the White House Correspondents Association how the pool is conducted. That&#8217;s not my job,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Yes, and we can read between the lines as well as what&#8217;s not being said here and what is going on is DANGEROUS for America. If we start down this road, how are we any different, ultimately, than Hugo Chavez and Venezuela. So, think it not strange that Chavez loves the Obama SOCIALIST ideas. Birds of a feather you know!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[By G. Hugh Bodell I spent the better part of my professional life understanding and improving on operational processes in the financial services industry.  When a process appeared too complex or confusing close up, we had a standard phrase, “Step &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/01/22/chaos-%e2%80%93-could-that-be-the-real-agenda/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>I spent the better part of my professional life understanding and improving on operational processes in the financial services industry.  When a process appeared too complex or confusing close up, we had a standard phrase, “Step back and look down on it as if you were 10,000 feet above it.”</p>
<p>The actions of my government, the United States government, over the past nine plus months have been far too confusing for even the best of the political analysis ‘experts’ to define a direction much less an agenda.  Every action seems to have less analysis and planning than the announced ‘initiative’ the day before.  Starting with the closing of a prison (Gitmo) without giving one iota of thought to where do you put the 250 plus terrorists, onto a plan of spending a trillion dollars to stimulate the economy without the plan being read by the people making it law, much less being held up for measurement and evaluation by the folk whose money was being pledged.</p>
<p>The list goes on and on, buying bankrupt auto manufacturers, buying up all the used cars in America only to replace them by cars made by offshore companies, the health care ‘reform’ debacle, screaming at Fox News like a teenage girl screaming at her disciplinarian mother “I hate you.”  All of these and many more actions seem to have nothing in common, no identifiable direction, no shared thread of policy or agenda…until you erase all the pre-defined framework that we are used to viewing government action in and rise up 10,000 feet and look down on the last nine months of government action and the unthinkable concept of an agenda emerges, chaos, intentional chaos.</p>
<p>Now your immediate reaction is either, “Oh brother another conspiracy theory” or “Why would a central government want to introduce chaos?”  Please bear with me and read on, I will try, over the next several paragraphs to walk you through the process I followed to come to this conclusion.</p>
<p><strong>Conspiracy</strong> is the foundation supporting all other actions of our political system.  The problem with conspiracies is that they only work as long as all participants in the conspiracy are committed to a common goal.  Republicans and Democrats (together with all other political parties) are committed to their group winning elections.  We recently got a look inside the communications strategy of a political party in the midst of an election courtesy of White House Communications Director Anita Dunn.  She said Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe (political strategist chief campaign manager for Barack Obama&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign) <strong>put out Web videos so the campaign could avoid talking to reporters and focus the media message</strong>. </p>
<p>&#8220;One of the reasons we did so many of the David Plouffe videos was not just for our supporters, but also because it was a way for us to get our message out without having to actually talk to reporters. &#8230; We just put that out there and made them write what Plouffe had said as opposed to Plouffe doing an interview with a reporter.  So it was very much we controlled it as opposed to the press controlled it.&#8221; </p>
<p>To pull off this kind of managed/controlled dissemination of information on a man running for the most powerful position on the globe calls for a conspiracy so well managed that the first leak of its existence does not occur for almost a year after the election and only then because an embattled Anita Dunn needed to boost her own self esteem by bragging.  (She thinks that kind of voter deception is a good thing, if that isn’t unwavering commitment to a cause I quite frankly do not know what would be.)</p>
<p>I would love to be able to say that only the bad guys ‘conspired’ but that is patently not the case, all those in the political arena conspire, regardless of the level of the office.  Many, many years ago when I was a young man pretending to be Diogenes searching for an honest man, I was convinced to run for office as a trustee in a small but corrupt village…as a reformer!  I accepted the invitation and ran as an independent, meeting and greeting voters and spouting my words of honesty, integrity and open government.  Three months into the campaign and a week before the election, at a meeting of my ‘handlers’ I learned that ‘we’ had a spy planted on the opposition’s campaign committee who fed us all the strategy and tactical moves they were planning.  It was an election of the trustee of a village for God’s sake…yet the process included the usual unethical conspiracy.  It is a fact of life here in the US!</p>
<p><strong>Why would a central government want to introduce chaos?</strong></p>
<p>To paraphrase Euripides “Those whom the seekers of absolute power would conquer they first confuse!”</p>
<p>Let us start by once again turning to one of the White House insiders, Ms. Anita Dunn, “And then the third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled together, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you&#8217;re going to make choices.”</p>
<p>Mao Zedong’s concept of ‘making a choice’ was simply that he wanted China to represent a pure form of Communism at any cost and by the end of his Great Leap Forward a commune based  industrialization program that ran from 1957 to 1960 an estimated 30 to 50 million Chinese citizens were dead, their demise directly related to Mao’s choices.</p>
<p>If Ms. Dunn is a follower of the obsession with achieving a pure Communist system, and she is the acknowledged member of a conspiracy to get Mr. Obama elected, may we not conclude that there is likelihood that Mr. Obama shares her objective.</p>
<p>Prior to Mr. Obama’s election on November 4, 2008 we knew very little about either his beliefs or his agenda.  We had platitudes and his involvement with some less than attractive folk to go on.  However all that changed on September 23, 2009 when Mr. Obama ‘leaked’ a view of his agenda, not to the people he works for, the United States citizenry, but to a group of people salivating over the possibility of their getting their hands on the ‘wealth of a nation’, our Nation.</p>
<p>On September 23, 2009 at 10:10 A.M. EDT President Obama gave a speech to The United Nations General Assembly that committed our Nation’s wealth, resources, culture and life style to ‘saving the world’.  The speech is 5,000 words but 26 of those words tell a lot about where he wants to take this country of ours.</p>
<p>“We will integrate more economies into a system of global trade.  …And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.”  That is global poverty he is referring to.</p>
<p>In order to accomplish that objective he must spread the wealth of the US around the globe.  In order to carry out that rather larcenous act he must either get the US working person’s buy in (fat chance) or take control of the machine producing the wealth of this Nation by sleight of hand and set about the redistribution via near dictatorial powers supported by his own special group of…oh my God…co-conspirators!</p>
<p>I am often accused of resorting to numbers to emphasize a point, however I am by education an accountant and have always believed the adage, ‘the devil is in the details’!  So let us take a look at how much of the world’s wealth we are actually responsible for generating…that’s right, generating, how much of the global annual domestic wealth production are we, the hard working, innovative, sacrificing people responsible for producing?</p>
<p>To assemble these statistics I turned to three sources, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the CIA World Fact Book.  The individual numbers by country do not differ that much but for some reason the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank elected to leave off several countries.  Since my objective here is to point out the perspective of the 194 members of the General Assembly that sat salivating over our hard earned US assets relative to their balance sheets and income statements I will use the data from the CIA World Fact Book (a highly respected source) since it comes closest with data on all of the 195 country membership of the UN.</p>
<p>The Gross Domestic Product (the value of everything made or service provided) for all the 195 members of the United Nations (including the US) is $61.070 trillion ($61,070,000,000,000.00).</p>
<p>The United States contribution to that awesome number is $14.26 trillion or 23.4%.  The next largest economy on the globe is Japan with 8.1% or 4.9 trillion followed very closely by China with 4.4 trillion/7.2%.</p>
<p>All told, the top 15 UN members account for 75.7% of Worldwide Gross Domestic Product of which the US accounts for about 1/3.  The other 180 members are left to divide up the remaining 24.3%.</p>
<p>Beginning to get the picture?  This is the proverbial ‘have vs. have not’ only on a global scale.</p>
<p>I am not going to enumerate the various circumstances that brings us to the position on this world stage of the richest guy in town, but we are there and nothing jumps out at me justifying our continuing the hard work, innovation and sacrifices, but hand off to others the rewards, either within the borders of this great country or worse yet, across the borders to 194 other countries.  Further, I believe that very few of the 306 million folk inside our borders would elect to hand over large wads of their hard earned cash to pay for the lifestyle of others whether domestically or internationally!</p>
<p>…and President Obama and his insider group are very aware of this obstacle to their agenda.</p>
<p>If one analyzes, on a micro basis, the reaction to socialistic policies in the US it gets down to “I will get health care cheaper,” “I will get education cheaper,” “I will get energy cheaper.”  There is little or no discussion by the citizenry or by the ‘Ruling Group” as to who is getting all these products and services at a higher cost so that the recipients of the largesse get them more cheaply.  That question would force the analysis that would clearly point out the flaws in the concept.</p>
<p>Now let us expand that wealth redistribution policy globally.</p>
<p>As Mr. Obama spreads that 14.26 trillion bucks produced by us over an ever expanding international group of ‘largesse recipients’ even our lowest earners will become aware that they have less…and they will not be happy!</p>
<p>So Mr. Obama and his insider group have got to quickly get unimaginable powers to control the reaction of the US population, not just the big earners, but all 306 million of us.</p>
<p>What is their strategy, CHAOS!</p>
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<li>(It is as if he were their spy inside our campaign.)  Now he has earned his bones with the global gang.</li>
<li>Keep the grand plan secret.</li>
<li>Never, never let the media point out that the definition of rich will keep descending until it includes the poor!</li>
<li>“Those rich people have too much, it should be shared.”  “Those people are poor because they are lazy and think they can live better off of my hard work.”</li>
<li>Create unworkable bankrupting programs on such a grand scale that the debt load of the United States as a sovereign nation explodes to a point that the case can be made that the US needs assistance from the other 194 members of the United Nations.</li>
<li>Massive unemployment, inflation, diminished dollar value, international movement to replace the dollar as the currency of choice, internal unrest, divisiveness, pitting American against American, etc.</li>
<li>Propose to the United Nations that the US will submit to an ‘interim’ World Government, turning over unprecedented authority to select members of a specially formed commission of the United Nations General Assembly, based on a Global/Socialism model.</li>
<li>Impose new laws in the United States, administered by special forces under the auspices of the United Nations.</li>
<li>Void the US constitution, dissolve the government and become part of the New World Order.</li>
<li>Redistribute the United States resources and assets until they are eventually depleted and the 195 members of the United Nations must look around for a new scam.</li>
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<p>…and that is why the logical answer to the reason for a government that appears to be out of control is that “The agenda is planned, managed CHAOS.”</p>
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<p>G. Hugh Bodell is the author of Treachery In Turtle Bay, a fictionalized mystery based on the 30 billion dollars that went missing from the UN Oil For Food Program.</p>
<p>He was consultant to the United Nations from 2000 through 2006.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. President Barack Obama has recently been given the Nobel Prize for trying to make the world free from nuclear weapons. Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s too early? Nobel Prize isn&#8217;t the prize from people to Obama, American people or rest &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/01/22/barack-obama-doesnt-deserve-nobel-prize/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>U.S. President Barack Obama has recently been given the Nobel Prize for trying to make the world free from nuclear weapons. Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s too early? Nobel Prize isn&#8217;t the prize from people to Obama, American people or rest of the world haven&#8217;t endorsed it. This prize doesn&#8217;t mean that he has done miracle for Americans or for the world.</p>
<p>First of all America itself have largest stock of nuclear, most destructive, advanced and dangerous weapons itself. Obama should have destroyed all these. American army have forcefully established military base camps in many parts of the world where they are at war also and American government interfere in all the political matters of other countries. What about these things Mr. Obama! Recently thousands of Americans have rallied against Obama&#8217;s economic policies.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying that he is a bad president but he should have been given more time to prove himself. Though, I agree that Obama has suddenly become one of the most popular persons in the world. He became the President of the most powerful country in a very short political career and it is one of the finest achievements. His slogan &#8220;Yes We Can&#8221; really inspired Americans to vote for him and it is also the inspiration for the whole world that we should never think we can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Still he is quite new as a President first let him do something big for America and World. If he had done anything big for the people of this world only then he should have been awarded with Nobel Prize.</p>
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		<title>Winning Through Peace in Afghanistan For Half the Price of War</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winning Through Peace in Afghanistan For Half the Price of War A reassessment of the situation in Afghanistan is underway as the uncertainty of the upcoming runoff election amidst looming fears of a civil war have spawned jitters over troop &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/01/22/winning-through-peace-in-afghanistan-for-half-the-price-of-war/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Winning Through Peace in Afghanistan </strong></p>
<p><strong>For Half the Price of War </strong></p>
<p>A reassessment of the situation in Afghanistan is underway as the uncertainty of the upcoming runoff election amidst looming fears of a civil war have spawned jitters over troop deployment levels in Washington.</p>
<p>At the heart of the crisis is our inability to define our objectives in the conflict.  We plunged head on into the crisis knowing nothing beyond the initial attainable goal of dislodging the Al-Qaeda, whose numbers have since dwindled to fewer than a hundred according to General Jones, and toppling the Taliban government in Kabul.</p>
<p>But somewhere along the way we forgot our mission and at the behest of the Northern Alliance identified the entire Pashtun population in Afghanistan as the enemy and conveniently vilified them as the Taliban.  By transferring blame from one party to another and from a few to the many, we lost track of identifying the enemy, ours and by extension theirs, as we resorted to our oft-failed tactic of applying a military solution to political problems and by using urban war tactics to a rural insurgency.  This gross negligence turned the situation into a paradox of failing military strategies, inherently contradictory political propositions, and conflicting regional interests that it is Afghanistan:<strong></strong></p>
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<li>In Afghanistan, we insist on winning a war for which our military presence is the cause and not the solution. </li>
<li>We are protecting the façade of a government that represents the tyranny of the minority rather than the will of the majority.</li>
<li>We are identifying Taliban ideologically, whereas in Afghanistan they are defined ethnically, as Pashtuns, so our campaign against them amounts to our participation in a civil war.</li>
<li>We are training an army dominated by the Tajik minority to fight an insurgency in areas of the country dominated by the Pashtun majority. </li>
<li>We are planning to expand the Afghan security forces to 400,000 at an unsustainable cost of $3.5 billion that is four times the entire annual GDP of Afghanistan.</li>
<li>We are militarizing a country at an exceptionally high civilian/military ratio amidst ethnic tensions that linger after a three-decade long civil war, lest we forget future ‘blowbacks.’</li>
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<p>Against these odds, can the U.S. avoid the fate of previous invaders and prevent the Afghan crisis from becoming Obama’s Achille’s heel?  It is difficult to answer history in the affirmative unless we genuinely pursue a drastically different path—in line with the advocacy of ‘change’, and Obama’s status as the Nobel Laureate for peace. The way to win peace without losing the war is to think outside the box for a practical solution based on trust and sincerity to show that we are a ‘helping hand’ and not an ‘occupying force.’</p>
<p>Afghanistan’s enemies are poverty, political disenfranchisement, religious manipulation, and social alienation. Through the peace alternative we can give the people the hope and opportunity for a life style that doesn’t feed on the miseries of war—“Nothing stops crime better than a working hand.”  We can drain the pond in which the extremists fish by denying them their most formidable resource—the human resource.</p>
<p>Such a strategy demands that our 21st century expectations meet the 19th century life style of the Afghans at the juncture of peace and reconciliation so that for once we can apply their solutions to their problems. They can be independent within the modern world, but not isolated from it.  The starting point can be the Pashto saying, “You can’t win villages by force,” as we direct our efforts towards village building instead of ‘nation building.’  We can do this by building village community centers to introduce modernity to them on their terms.</p>
<p>The benefits of an enduring peace will always out weigh the miseries of perpetual wars.  By making a tangible and visible investment in their lives, as the U.S. did in the 1960s, we can win the hearts and minds of the economically neglected and politically marginalized Pashtuns in the war-torn areas of rural Afghanistan and Pakistan.</p>
<p>The safety of these community centers can be guaranteed through a priority of built-in immunities.  Mosques that have a built-in protection against extremists’ attacks should be built first and schools, libraries, and health clinics should be phased in according to a similar safety assessment. These facilities should be Internet-connected to broaden the people’s worldview by providing access to a more progressive Islam that is not in conflict with modernity and a spiritual rather than the doctrinal dimension of Islam.  There should be electronic libraries on history, literature, arts and sciences that revive a sense of cultural pride in a heritage that inspires a sense of responsibility through relevant historical narratives.</p>
<p>In due course, sports facilities should be built to draw the youth away from battlefields. Arts, crafts, and cottage industry modules should be built with micro-lending banking; agribusiness cooperatives to subsidize alternative crop substitution replacing opium poppy cultivation.  Pharmaceutical plants should be built to turn the local poppy harvest into medicinal drugs that will not only eliminate narco-financing of the insurgency, but also provide opportunities for sound economic investment.</p>
<p>Because the community will have a vested interest in these projects, they will protect with their blood that which they have built with their own hands.  Nonetheless, a contingency of rapid re-building plans should be in place in the event of attacks and sabotage.</p>
<p>As extensive as this may seem, it can be done with a fraction of the cost of military operations and will certainly have better prospects of success.</p>
<p>They say a republic loses its soul when it becomes an empire. The opportunity awaits a new American leader like Barack Obama to convince the world that our imperial reach can be soulfully democratic. <em></em></p>
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<p>Zaman Stanizai is professor of Islamic Traditions at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.</p>
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		<title>Culture and Technology should be communicated between the USA and China</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 16, 2009, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, had a conversation with China youth in Shanghai, the most prosperous city in China. The attended people include youth at the conversation spot, youth on the Internet even the &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/01/22/culture-and-technology-should-be-communicated-between-the-usa-and-china/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>November 16, 2009, Barack Obama, the President of the United States, had a conversation with China youth in Shanghai, the most prosperous city in China. The attended people include youth at the conversation spot, youth on the Internet even the all the Chinese people. Meanwhile, the conversation between the President, from the most powerful country in today&#8217;s world, and youth, from the most powerful developing country, are also concerned by American people. Under the circumstances of global financial turmoil and many challenges the mankind have to face, a few signals about future and the prospect about the world may be revealed from this conversation. Though there are many differences between the two countries such as national patterns, social consciousness, especially economic recovery policy, the themes of Obama&#8217;s speech and conversation are culture and history, which can easily arouse common views.</p>
<p>China is an ancient Oriental country with long history while the USA is a young country, established 200 years ago. Obviously, there is culture gap, which leads to contempt, hostility, even conflict. After years of hardships experienced, the two countries with different cultures now expect to arouse common views on cultures. It is significant for the development of the world. But we also have the point that it is unrealistic that all the gaps disappear through Obama&#8217;s trip to China and the conversation with China youth. Based on the lessons of history, more equality, more homage and more cooperation are needed.</p>
<p>Culture is more important than technology from the history of the mankind, we can see. Culture is not equal to the technology, what’s more, culture is the basis of technology. The source of technology innovation also comes from the culture. The technology agreed with culture can benefit the mankind while the technology deviated the culture would bring catastrophe to the mankind. World War I and World War II are the most appropriate examples of such view and the lessons of history which we should avoid.</p>
<p>For China, many aspects such as modern technology innovation and application should be improved. For USA, though with advanced science and technology, they should absorb modestly the culture of ancient Oriental China. Only by this way, can China and the USA become more powerful and contribute to the whole world.</p>
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		<title>Obama Deception Dulls Public Outrage on Poisonous Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it’s safe to say that the majority of you readers, and in fact the majority of the planetary population, held high hopes for the new United States President, Barack Obama.  He championed change and promised to restore respect &#8230; <a href="http://www.letterstotheeditor.com/2010/01/22/obama-deception-dulls-public-outrage-on-poisonous-policies/" style="float:right;">read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it’s safe to say that the majority of you readers, and in fact the majority of the planetary population, held high hopes for the new United States President, Barack Obama.  He championed change and promised to restore respect to international affairs.  Perhaps his hand to shape insurance reform to benefit big insurance companies is awakening more of you, (like it is me), to the Obama deception which has occurred.</p>
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<li>(You can see for yourself at http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/indus.php?cycle=2008&amp;cid=N00009638.)  No wonder Wall Street wonders fill his economic cabinet.</li>
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<p>Little doubt remains that you and I and much of the planet were fed up with 8 years of the Bush Cheney regime.  Under the billowing smoke of 9/11 they moved quickly to gut the U.S. Constitution and intensify a surveillance state at home.</p>
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<li>How many of you remember when they found the Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Iraq?   Oh yeah, there weren’t any.</li>
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<p>But if you think that USA Incorporated began and ended with the last White House think again.  The new man on Pennsylvania Avenue has just the face that was needed.  Let’s be clear here.  People who were up in arms, now have their arms crossed expecting essential transformations of U.S. policies as promised.  But it’s the same deep pockets that provide the political menu to Americans at the polls.</p>
<p>The Center for Responsive Politics explains it as, “…a revolving door that shuffles former federal employees into jobs as lobbyists, consultants and strategists just as the door pulls former hired guns into government careers. While members of the executive branch, Congress and senior congressional staffers spin in and out of the private and public sectors, so too does privilege, power, access and, of course, money.”</p>
<p>It is not the elected officials and the functionaries they hire that make policies in response to voters’ needs.  If you really thought the long time U.S. senator-turned-president would be any different, I’m afraid you swallowed the Obama deception whole.</p>
<p>Of course it is true that the election of an African American of fairly humble origins does indeed show that any American can be elected president.  Anyone that is, if they are willing to do the bidding of the economic elite.</p>
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<li>(Here is a brief article of the wide wealth disparity: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/28/content_516225.htm.).</li>
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<p>Thus it should come as no surprise that Obama’s cabinet includes Bush and Clinton Administration hand-me downs as well as numerous Wall Street insiders and policy hacks.  Promises of pulling out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, affordable health care for all Americans and pulling out of the Oil Wars worked to win public hope.</p>
<p>But Obama is a champion of chump change alone, a fine facelift to the corporate globalist agenda to immense profits off the sweat of working people.  The Obama deception is just the latest move by the wealthy wielders of real power.  A kinder gentler figure serves as a façade for the same policies.  Are we ready to be complacent?</p>
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