The pro-Obama writers over at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah had a field day coming up with these ten scandals for a man who had seven wars going and gave the right essentially everything they wanted, which was much more than Bush and Dick could get them with Colon.
But that was eight years of being stabbed in the back by the nicest, best speaking backstabber this country has ever seen, an urban Reagan or city slick Lincoln.
(JK) Chris Rock explains to white folks that Barry is white enough to elect.
The next president of the United States
Contrast 44 with 45, who in just one week repeatedly made an ass of himself and the country, rambling incoherently as he was asked about Mother's Day. Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Don John reeling off fantasies about the coronavirus just "going away" after two West Wing aides test positive and unemployment soars to its highest level since the Great Depression.
(Vengencefrom1979) If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a whole video worth?
9/11? America, like this white turkey, can eat my... - George W. Bush (choiceorlife.com)
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Yeah, we lied. All Governments Lie.
What
"In Plane Site" accomplishes that no other video expose on 9/11 (September
11th, 2001) has to date done is to expose a barrage of news clips
from a majority of the mainstream media "news" outlets.
The "official story" of
9/11 was told on live TV by reporters, police, firefighters, and
other on-the-scene eyewitnesses. However, that footage was shown only ONCE on live television broadcasts in the first hours of the attacks and
then it was NEVER repeated again.
In the meantime, the stories changed, information was
enigmatically omitted, and what can only be described as officially
prescribed propaganda took the place of indisputable reality.
What about the Pentagon?
Me, too. Ditto for whatever Bush said.
THE
PENTAGON: Some of the most damning evidence surrounding the alleged "attack"
on the Pentagon centers around substantial and incontrovertible video and
photographic evidence which gives incites viewers to ask crucial questions.
After all, the laws of physics cannot be suspended. Or can they?
One question many viewers ask is, "Why was
America [i.e., the United States spoken of as if it were representative of the entire continent] and the rest of the world not shown the video footage and the
photographs of the Pentagon BEFORE the outer wall collapsed?"
"Change"? I've changed.
Many
people do not realize that the outer wall of the Pentagon did not
collapse until 20 minutes after the initial impact of what we were told
was a Boeing 757, which miraculously left no wreckage, fuel, fire, or forensic evidence.
Upon examining these photographs, one can
clearly see a hole, which is only 16 feet. This begs the
question: "How can a Boeing 757, which is over 44 feet in height and 124
feet in width, simply disappear without a trace into a hole that is only
16 ft. in diameter? Also, why is there no external damage to the
Pentagon where the wings and the tail section would have impacted with
the outer wall?
Contrary to the video footage shown to the American [U.S.]
public, photographs taken only moments after the impact show NOW WRECKAGE
on the lawn of the Pentagon. Where is the plane? Where are the broken wings,
the tail, the luggage, the seats, the landing gear, and the engines?
Most importantly, what happened to the passengers who were aboard that
plane?
America remembers the photographs that they were shown
of tiny, indiscernible fragments, which were described as [or said to be] pieces of a
Boeing 757. Were these fragments of a Boeing 757?
Internal photographs
of the Pentagon taken by Jocelyn Augustino, a FEMA photographer, do not
show engine parts matching the description of a 757's engine turbofan
according to John W. Brown, a spokesperson for Rolls Royce.
Both Pratt
& Whitney and Rolls Royce manufacture the engines used on these
jetliners. The turbofans themselves are approximately 7 feet in
diameter. The FEMA photos show what appears to be a single turbofan
that is approximately 3 feet in diameter. This better fits the
descriptions of EYEWITNESSES who claim that they saw what could only be
described as a commuter plane capable of holding only 8 to 12
passengers.
This single piece of evidence also helps support other
reports from witnesses such as Lon Rains, editor for "Space News," who
was quoted as saying "I heard a very loud, quick whooshing sound.
"I
was convinced it was a missile. It came in so fast -- it sounded
nothing like an airplane." Don Parkal said, "A bomb had gone off. I
could smell the cordite. I knew explosives had been set off somewhere."
Tom Seibert said, "We heard what sounded like a missile."
Protesters face off with police on a pedestrian bridge over I-80 shortly after they shut down traffic in both directions in response to police killings in Missouri and NY in Berkeley, California, Dec. 8, 2014. Protest songs are taking their place alongside the chants (AP).
(PG) "Berkeley in the Sixties" The alumni of UC Berkeley tell their stories about how a quiet elite public school became the site of massive political activism during the awakening of students about the right of free speech, political expression on campus, economic and civil liberties, and peace that ran counter to the banks' and Pentagon's "war machine" (military-industrial complex) bombing Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia in illegal, undeclared conflicts.
Pro-justice, anti-police demonstrations inspire new protest songs BERKELEY, California (AP) - Stop. Hey, what's that sound? Protest songs are taking their place alongside chants of “I Can’t Breathe” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” as demonstrators raise their voices to condemn the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police [and rampant police brutality tacitly approved by corrupt and racist courts, the DOJ, and the mainstream media.]. There's something happening here.
I came to Berkeley to save the world not myself.
The [fear and/or hate based police executions] of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have inspired a musical outpouring perhaps unseen in the U.S. since Pete Seeger helped make "We Shall Overcome" a civil-rights standard in the 1960s.
Older songs are being redeployed for a new generation. New compositions are being widely shared, including some from major-label artists. And holiday classics are being rewritten, such as a barbed spin on "White Christmas."
It's more than a school. It's a statement.
[Many people who claim they would have loved to be free-loving hippies and peace activists in Berkeley during the 1960s are now cowering at home without realizing that this is their opportunity to stand up for justice, to stand up for the voiceless, to stand up for peace and economic fairness, to stand against the war crimes of Washington, the CIA, NSA, FBI, NSC, the militarized police state down at the local station, and other secretive agencies. What a terrible thing it must be to realize that one is a coward, a hypocrite, or a "Little Eichmann" as a professor once infuriated the right wing by saying. "Get up. Stand up. Don't give up the fight. Stand up for your rights." Right?] More
(Uprising with Sonali, Dec. 10, 2014) UC Berkeley Professor of Law and Ethnic Studies John A. Powell speaks about the history of racism in the United Statesand how it is embedded deep into the fabric of America. First, Arun Gupta analyzes breaking news about the Senate CIA torture report, lying, war crimes, and crimes against humanity hiding under the banner of "patriotism" and American exceptionalism that carried over from the Bush-Cheney administration to the Obama-Bush III years.
CIA fights back after torture report
CIA Telethon: Klaus, Stan, Catholic priest, and others help fund the CIA (American Dad).
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Remember cheering the murder of this man?
[How are we going to lie ourselves out of this one and keep the torture of Chelsea Bradley Manning and other detainees, particularly those darn whistleblowers?]
Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate's investigation into the CIA's horrific crimes against humanity, international war crimes, and harrowing torture practices that used "9/11" as their pretext...
PHOTO: This [creepy] undated picture from the Arabic language website muslm.net shows a man identified by the site as KSM, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the "mastermind" of the Sep. 11 inside job. John McLaughlin, a former deputy CIA director, says ["torture" like] waterboarding [which is a mock execution that simulates drowning to the unconscious mind, which is then permanently traumatized regardless of willpower or reasoning] turned Mr. Mohammed into a US "consultant" on al-Qaeda.
[The strategy to be used? Deny everything. And if forced against the wall, pull out familiar excuses. For examples, "We didn't know it was 'torture.' Pres. Bush said we could. Vice Pres. Dick Cheney came by and cheered us on. Condeeleezza Rice signed off on it. Donald Rumsfeld was all for it. Gen. Colin Powell tried to stop us, but he doctored reports to justify illegal invasions of the Gulf and turned our analysts' work into pure propaganda. Pres. Obama's handlers have been all for it, so instead of dialing it back, we've committed more crimes under the Obama Administration than we were able to under the Bush-Cheney regime."]
We torture. USA tortures. Graphic new details of the post-9/11 U.S. torture program came to light Tuesday (Dec. 9, 2014) when the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 500-page summary of its investigation into the CIA with key parts redacted.
[This means it gets worse with many parts completely blacked out so no one can hold the Bush Admin and CIA to account for major atrocities and Nazi-level war crimes.]
The report concludes that the Central Intelligence Agency failed to disrupt a single plot despite torturing al-Qaeda and other captives in secret prisons worldwide between 2002 and 2006, and details a list of torture methods used on prisoners, including waterboarding, anal sexual threats with broomsticks, and "rectal feeding."
The report also confirms the CIA ran black torture sites in Afghanistan, Lithuania, Romania, Poland, Thailand, and a secret site on the Guantánamo Naval Base known as Strawberry Fields.
So far no one involved in the CIA interrogation program has been charged with a crime except the whistleblower John Kiriakou. In 2007, he became the first person with direct knowledge of the program to publicly reveal its existence. He is now serving a 30-month sentence.
DN! speaks with Reed Brody, counsel and spokesperson for Human Rights Watch, who has written several reports on prisoner mistreatment in the endless U.S. war on terror/fear (which is a tactic that will never end or can be said to exist anywhere at anytime), including a 2011 report which called for a criminal investigation of senior Bush administration officials -- Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Colin Powell, CIA evidence-destroyer Jose Rodriguez, John Ashcroft, and others. More CIA: What if we lie our way out of this? Bradley Klapper, The Associated Press via Denver Post, 12/11/2014 (mainstream media spin)
Man, we've been killing for so long, this report ain't nothing... This mic isn't on, is it?
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What's a little torture, murder, war crimes?
Just as we have the best democracy money can buy, we have an even better official military-industrial propaganda arm in the mainstream media. Its job is to spin, sanitize, and otherwise detract from all stories that might upset you. Give us complacency or give us death. Here the AP shows why everything the CIA did is in the past, nothing to worry about, nothing it's doing now, nothing but patriotism, shut up and obey it's none of your business anyway, hey, how would you like a visit from the Company? Yeah, I didn't think so. So get back to work, eat GMOs, and drink up, it's happy hour! And next time, mind your own business. We run this country from the back room not you from your ridiculous voting booth.
WASHINGTON, D.C. [just outside of the USA] - Top spies past and present campaigned Wednesday to discredit the Senate's investigation into the CIA's harrowing torture practices after 9/11, battling to define the historical record and deter potential legal action around the world.
The Senate intelligence committee's report doesn't urge prosecution for wrongdoing, and the Justice Department has no interest in reopening a criminal probe
The threat to former interrogators and their superiors was underlined as a U.N. special investigator demanded that those responsible for "systematic crimes" be brought to justice, and human rights groups pushed for the arrest of key CIA and Bush administration figures if they travel overseas.
Current and former CIA officials pushed back, determined to paint the Senate report as a political stunt by Senate Democrats tarnishing a program that saved American lives.
Gov't has many arms like Google, Facebook
It is a "one-sided study marred by errors of fact and interpretation -- essentially a poorly done and partisan attack on the agency that has done the most to protect America," former CIA directors George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece.
Hayden was singled out by Senate investigators for what they said was a string of misleading or outright false statements he gave in 2007 about the importance of the CIA's brutal treatment of detainees in thwarting terrorist attacks. He described the focus on him as "ironic on so many levels" as any wrongdoing predated his arrival at the CIA.
"They were far too interested in yelling at me," Hayden said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.
The intelligence committee's 500-page release concluded that the CIA inflicted suffering on al-Qaeda prisoners beyond its legal authority and that none of the agency's "enhanced interrogations" provided critical, life-saving intelligence. It cited the CIA's own records, documenting in detail how waterboarding and lesser-known techniques such as "rectal feeding" were used.
If the CIA says that was his compound, then Seal Team 6 are not murderous gov't assassins?
Boogieman: A fake CIA 9/11 "mastermind"
The CIA is in the uncomfortable position of defending itself publicly, given its basic mission to protect the country secretly. Its 136-page rebuttal suggests that Senate Democrats searched through millions of documents to pull out only the evidence backing up predetermined conclusions.
"That's like doing a crossword puzzle on Tuesday with Wednesday's answer's key," the CIA said in an e-mailed statement.
Challenging one of the report's most explosive arguments -- that harsh interrogation techniques didn't lead to Osama bin Laden -- the CIA pointed to questioning of Ammar al-Baluchi, who revealed how an al-Qaeda operative relayed messages to and from bin Laden after he departed Afghanistan.
Before then, the CIA said, it knew only that courier Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti interacted with bin Laden in 2001 when the al-Qaeda leader was accessible to many of his followers. Al-Kuwaiti eventually led the U.S. to bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.
Poring over the same body of evidence as the investigators, the CIA insisted most of the 20 case studies cited in the Senate report actually illustrated how enhanced interrogations helped disrupt plots, capture terrorists and prevent another 9/11-type attack. More
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As the U.S. “relocates” personnel (rather than “evacuating” them) out of the World’s Largest Embassy [military base] in Baghdad, it is valuable to look at our one billion dollar monument to American hubris (overarching pride and ambition).
Hey, we meant well! And everyone knows the road to Ramadi is paved with good intentions.
Though likely tens of thousands of people have been inside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and a great many of them have scattered photos of the place across the social media landscape, actual official photos of the embassy have been limited to a handful of narrow views. The stated reason for all this is “security.”
Of course a simple Google search [which can be done better and more privately at Startpage.com, which incorporates Google search without tracking users] will reveal many images; there even were 3-D model of the place online.
US veterans are reflecting on the crisis in Iraq. Blake Hall served in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, in Mosul and in Baghdad among other places. Nowadays, Hall runs a tech company in Washington, DC, and he's been following the news from Iraq closely. That's been frustrating, he says, and heartbreaking.
Still, what has been missing is a really nice color shot of the lawn. We have that now, posted online by someone:
There is a very interesting backstory to that nice lawn you see pictured above. If you’ve read my book about Iraq, We Meant Well, you may already know the story:
Iraq: Babylon, Mesopotamia, Sumeria
The World’s Biggest Embassy (104 acres, 22 buildings, thousands of staff, a $116 million vehicle inventory), physically larger than the Vatican, was a sign of our commitment to Iraq, at least our commitment to excess. “Along with the Great Wall of China,” said the ambassador, Chris Hill at the time, “the Baghdad Embassy is one of those things you can see with the naked eye from outer space.”
Iraqi troops reject puppet gov't, go militant
The newly-opened embassy was made up of large office buildings, the main one built around a four-story atrium, with overhead lights that resembled sails. If someone told us there was a Bath and Body Works in there, we would not have thought it odd.
The World’s Biggest Embassy sat in, or perhaps defined, the Green Zone. Called the Emerald City by some, the Green Zone represented the World’s Largest Public Relations Failure. In the process of deposing Saddam, we placed our new seat of power right on top of his old one, just as the ancient Sumerians built their strongholds on top of fallen ones out in the desert.
Less Mesopotamia but more MESS
In addition to the new buildings, Saddam’s old palaces in the Zone were repurposed as offices, and Saddam’s old jails became our new jails. Conveniently for Iraqis, the overlords might have changed, but the address had not. The place you went to visit political prisoners who opposed Saddam was still the place you went to look for relatives who opposed the Americans.
Read in reverse, add zeros for civilian deaths
The new Embassy compound isolated American leadership at first physically, and, soon after, mentally as well. The air of otherworldliness started right with the design of the place. American architects had planned for the Embassy grounds to have all sorts of trees, grassy areas and outdoor benches; the original drawings made it look like a leafy college campus. More
The new guide by filmmaker Peter Joseph offers 220 pages of source material backing the claims made in this classic film, which goes much further than investigating 9/11. See on YouTube.
The former Secretary of State dismisses the criticisms directed at him in Dick Cheney's new book."My head isn't exploding," Colon says. In the horrible days of Bush, it was Dick and Colon rounding out the triple threat. This threesome was eager to ruin the world. But poet Donald Rumsfeld, Gaddafi heartthrob Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, and other menaces (who strangely love to sing like tattling Dick) had a hand in destroying the constitution and committing crimes against humanity as well. Dick is still sticking it to Colon. But now Cheney and Powell are at it in public. Dick's many revelations in his upcoming memoirs is stirring controversy. He is admitting a great deal. He wanted torture, war, and the exclusion of the first black president, who was meant to be Republican Powell until he rubbed someone the wrong way. Charles Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's life's ambition is to bring George Bush, Jr. to trial for murder. There is a suit over Cheney arrest and even his dog is banned.
By now it's quite predictable: Every year as the anniversary of the attack approaches, some of the most established mainstream media brands are pressed into service to sell the official story of 9/11. The 2009 iteration of this spectacle is notable for the contrast between the designated brand and the obligatory message. That brand, best known for its high-brow photojournalistic National Geographic Magazine, has existed since 1889, complete with a non-profit Society dedicated to education in geography, archaeology, history, world cultures, and natural science. One can't help but wonder how National Geographic's many benefactors would feel if they understood how the brand was being used to prop up the "War on Terror" with its Popular-Mechanics-style attack piece to be aired on August 31, 2009. More>>
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BERKELEY, California (AP) - Stop. Hey, what's that sound? Protest songs are taking their place alongside chants of “I Can’t Breathe” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” as demonstrators raise their voices to condemn the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police [and rampant police brutality tacitly approved by corrupt and racist courts, the DOJ, and the mainstream media.]. There's something happening here.
[The strategy to be used? Deny everything. And if forced against the wall, pull out familiar excuses. For examples, "We didn't know it was 'torture.' Pres. Bush said we could. Vice Pres. Dick Cheney came by and cheered us on. Condeeleezza Rice signed off on it. Donald Rumsfeld was all for it. Gen. Colin Powell tried to stop us, but he doctored reports to justify illegal invasions of the Gulf and turned our analysts' work into pure propaganda. Pres. Obama's handlers have been all for it, so instead of dialing it back, we've committed more crimes under the Obama Administration than we were able to under the Bush-Cheney regime."]
Even if Dick sticks it to me, he only feels this big. Fallout from Cheney memoirs begins.
The former Secretary of State dismisses the criticisms directed at him in Dick Cheney's new book. "My head isn't exploding," Colon says. In the horrible days of Bush, it was Dick and Colon rounding out the triple threat. This threesome was eager to ruin the world. But poet Donald Rumsfeld, Gaddafi heartthrob Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, and other menaces (who strangely love to sing like tattling Dick) 
had a hand in destroying the constitution and committing crimes against humanity as well. Dick is still sticking it to Colon. But now Cheney and Powell are at it in public. Dick's many revelations in his upcoming memoirs is stirring controversy. He is admitting a great deal. He wanted torture, war, and the exclusion of the first black president, who was meant to be Republican Powell until he rubbed someone the wrong way. Charles Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's life's ambition is to bring George Bush, Jr. to trial for murder. There is a suit over Cheney arrest and even his dog is banned.
By now it's quite predictable: Every year as the anniversary of the attack approaches, some of the most established mainstream media brands are pressed into service to sell the official story of 9/11. 
The 2009 iteration of this spectacle is notable for the contrast between the designated brand and the obligatory message. That brand, best known for its high-brow photojournalistic National Geographic Magazine, has existed since 1889, complete with a non-profit Society dedicated to education in geography, archaeology, history, world cultures, and natural science. One can't help but wonder how National Geographic's many benefactors would feel if they understood how the brand was being used to prop up the "War on Terror" with its Popular-Mechanics-style attack piece to be aired on August 31, 2009. More>> 
